The terms, taken from a symbolical book, are plainly to my mind symbolical, and Dr.Cumming and a thousand mightier doctors could not talk it out of me, I think.

I don't, for the rest, like Dr.Cumming; his books seem to me very narrow.
Isn't the tendency with us all to magnify the great events of our own time, just as we diminish the small events?
For me, I am heretical in certain things.

I expect _no_ renewal of the Jewish kingdom, for instance.

And I doubt much whether Christ's 'second coming' will be personal.

The end of the world is probably the end of a dispensation.
What I expect is, a great development of Christianity in opposition to the churches, and of humanity generally in opposition to the nations, and I look out for this in much quiet hope.