But the darkness was not eternal. When the fulness of time was come the “Morning Star” of the Reformation, John Wycliffe, arose, and was soon followed by the “Sun,” Martin Luther, the brightness of whose light dispelled the darkness. The doctrine of the Premillennial Return of the Lord was revived, but the Reformers did not go far enough. The period was one of religious strife and the formation of new religious sects. The result was an ebb of Spirituality and the growth of Rationalism, which refused