To the End of the World

By Helen C. White To the End of the World tells of Michel de la Tour d’Auvergne, a Frenchman of high ideals whose cherished ambition is to see the great monastery of Cluny enkindle in France the fervor of faith in Christ and his Church. Yet it is the year 1789 and monasteries great and small are to serve as kindling for an altogether different fire: the inexorable conflagration of Church and tradition in the name of Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité. From the ashes of Cluny, Michel rises to pursue that same aim of awakening France from its spiritual slumber—albeit now in the humble role of parish priest to a cheerless fishing village. When the Revolutionaries impose the Civil Constitution of the Clergy, Michel refuses to take the Oath, thereby setting into motion a string of tumultuous events that will bring him to the shadow of the guillotine itself. “Liberty, equality, and fraternity are still a dream. I think they must be so as long as men try to realize that dream by violence and withou