The Great Controversy Between Christ and Satan

The Great Controversy
Between Christ and Satan
The Conflict of the Ages in the Christian Dispensation
By Ellen G. White
Review & Herald Publishing Association
Washington, D.C.
Copyright 1888, 1907, 1911, by Mrs. E. G. White

This book, reader, is not published to tell us that there is sin and woe and misery in this world. We know it all too well.
This book is not published to tell us that there is an irreconcilable controversy between darkness and light, sin and righteousness, wrong and right, death and life. In our heart of hearts we know it, and know that we are participators, actors, in the conflict.
But to every one of us comes at times a longing to know more of the great controversy. How did the controversy begin? or was it always here? What elements enter into its awfully complex aspect? How am I related to it? What is my responsibility? I find myself in this world by no choice of my own. Does that mean to me evil or good?
What are the great principles involved? How long will the controversy continue? What will be its ending? Will this earth sink, as some scientists tell us, into the depths of a sunless, frozen, eternal night? or is there a better future before it, radiant with the light of life, warm with the eternal love of God?