Christendom: A Retrospective and Prospective Outline by Benjamin Wills Newton and published by Classics.
"It is very obvious that the progress of the Age in which we live (as indeed of all previous Ages) is, not towards Good, but towards Evil. "As the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of Man be," are words too clear to be evaded. In whatever way the Book of Revelation be explained in detail, it is evident that it declares that the Dispensation in which we live is to end in judgment. Nor is there one of the Prophets, from Enoch, the seventh from Adam, to Malachi, whose testimonies do not show that "lamentation, mourning and woe" are written on the whole history of the World's Civilisation, and more especially on the Civilisation of the latter day. It must be so if "the whole world lieth in the Wicked One." Jeremiah 1. and li. and Revelation xviii. give to us the closing picture of the condition of human civilisation drawn by the hand of God Himself.
Accordingly, the servants of God in this, and all previous Dispensations, have had committed to them as one of their chief duties and chief honours, the maintenance of the Prophetic testimony. The people of God, if they are to grow up as a holy Temple unto Him, must be builded "on the foundation of the Apostles and Prophets." The testimonies of Jeremiah were not abolished, but confirmed and amplified by the testimonies of John in Patmos. Both led to bonds and imprisonment; but both were honourable and blessed; and needful to enable the man of God to stand girt with Truth on the battlefield." From the Introduction
