To strike my heart with fear. See, see,

That shedd'st from the revolving sky

On all the light they see thee by,

The scene closes with earthquake and thunder,

in the midst of which PROMETHEUS and the DAUGHTERS OF OCEANUS

THE STORY Of PROPHETS AND KINGS IS THE SECOND IN A SERIES OF FIVE OUTSTANDING VOLUMES SPANNING SACRED HISTORY. IT WAS, HOWEVER, THE LAST BOOK OF THE SERIES TO BE WRITTEN, AND THE LAST OF MANY RICH WORKS TO COME FROM THE GIFTED PEN OF ELLEN G. WHITE. THROUGH HER SEVENTY YEARS OF SPEAKING AND WRITING IN AMERICA AND ABROAD, MRS. WHITE EVER KEPT BEFORE THE PUBLIC THE LARGER SIGNIFICANCE OF THE EVENTS OF HISTORY, REVEALING THAT IN THE AFFAIRS OF MEN ARE TO BE DETECTED THE UNSEEN INFLUENCES OF RIGHTEOUSNESS AND EVIL--THE HAND OF GOD AND THE WORK OF THE GREAT ADVERSARY.

THE AUTHOR WITH DEEP INSIGHT IN PROVIDENTIAL WORKINGS DRAWS THE CURTAIN ASIDE AND REVEALS A PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY BY WHICH THE EVENTS OF THE PAST TAKE ON ETERNAL SIGNIFICANCE. SHE EXPRESSED THIS PHILOSOPHY IN THIS WAY:

"THE STRENGTH OF NATIONS AND OF INDIVIDUALS IS NOT FOUND IN THE OPPORTUNITIES AND FACILITIES THAT APPEAR TO MAKE THEM INVINCIBLE; IT IS NOT FOUND IN THEIR BOASTED GREATNESS. THAT WHICH ALONE CAN MAKE THEM GREAT OR STRONG IS THE POWER AND PURPOSE OF GOD. THEY THEMSELVES BY THEIR ATTITUDE TOWARD HIS PURPOSE, DECIDE THEIR OWN DESTINY.