From the Preface: I believe that I have produced sufficient scriptural proof on the points at issue to satisfy any earnest, unprejudiced Christian that the reign of Christ is in the heart and will never be a carnal political kingdom on this earth.
Although the proof-text method of argument has pretty well gone out of use in modern theological literature, I have followed that method in this book for the simple reason that no other method is adapted to appeal to premillennialists themselves and those to whom their arguments appeal.—Charles Ewing Brown
“While this was not exactly in conformity with scriptural truth, which teaches clearly that a true Christian can fall away into final apostasy, it was, nevertheless, not so offensive to the moral sense of earnest Christians, and indeed of all serious-minded persons, as the present-day theory of eternal security, which teaches that if a person has really been saved once, then he can go on and commit every abominable sin, even including murder, and not lose his salvation. This is truly an evil doctrine, calculated to undermine the morality and destroy the character of young people who believe themselves to be sincere Christians.” (source)