THE CITY OF THE SEVEN HILLS. BY H. GRATTAN GUINNESS, D.D., F.R.A.S., F.R.G.S. London: JAMES NISBET & CO., 21 BERNERS STREET; MORGAN & SCOTT, 12 PATERNOSTER BUILDINGS. 14770 PREFACE. HIS book, though a poem, is not of an unprac THIS tical nature. It is intended to be just the reverse. It deals with a great subject. Its theme is a power which in one or other of its forms has mightily influenced the leading races of mankind for twenty-five centuries--a power which still governs, or rather mis-governs to their infinite injury-two hundred millions of our fellow-creatures. Can such a subject be unpractical? Do we not rather need to gain fresh and vivid impressions of such a power? It has had, and still has, to do with the peace and prosperity of many nations, as well as with the eternal salvation of individuals. God has allowed it to bulk largely in the pages of prophecy, and its history is that of the very sphere and arena in which the great work of Redemption has so far been |