The Great Controversy

The book opens with the sad closing scenes of Jerusalem's history, the
city of God's chosen, after her rejection of the Man of Calvary, who
came to save. Thence onward along the great highway of the nations, it
points us to the persecutions of God's children in the first centuries;
the great apostasy which followed in His church; the world-awakening of
the Reformation, in which some of the great principles of the
controversy are clearly manifest; the awful lesson of the rejection of
right principles by France; the revival and exaltation of the
Scriptures, and their beneficent, life-saving influence; the religious
awakening of the last days; the unsealing of the radiant fountain of
God's word, with its wonderful revelations of light and knowledge to
meet the baleful upspringing of every delusion of darkness.