cost of a bloody apocalyptic struggle, little would stand in the way of the advancing kingdom. Surely a golden age was at hand. What followed was in fact the “Gilded Age.” The era marked by the assassination of two presidents and the impeachment of another, a stolen election, and a reign of rampant political and business corruption and greed, was well named by Mark Twain. A veneer of evangelical Sunday-school piety covered almost everything in the culture, but no longer did the rhetoric