Excerpt from Apocalyptic Sketches: Lectures on the Seven Churches of Asia Minor The epistles to these churches are really addressed to the Ca tholic or Universal Church - they are not prescriptions for a century, but for all succeeding ages - duties not for a province, but duties for the world; encouragements, promises, and precious truths, which, like the Author Of all, are the same in the first and in the last century, and Operative in all latitudes, in all lon gitudes, in all Climes fitted to man for yesterday, to-day, and for ever. In this my preliminary lecture, I intend to submit, what I trust will not be altogether unprofitable, some facts in the biography and character Of him who is here named as the author of the Apocalypse. I have not done SO before: I wish that every stage of our progress, in examining God's holy word, may be from light to light that all that is to be learned Of God, his ways, and people, may be learned by us. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.