The entire book is available from google books. The book was republished by Dr. Dean as After the Verdict

Here is the beginning of chapter One:

Whatever knowledge we may be able to acquire concerning man’s past and present condition and however the sources whence we may have drawn our information, there is one and only one reliable source of intelligence concerning the future. Death bounds the of human vision; Death closes the expanse of human hope and human joy; Death has its secrets and reveal them to no one. We may wander in the old solitudes, and explore the secret places where his captives rest, but we shall seek in vain for any glimmering ray of which shall tell us of the track that former prisoners had been led or that shall give us any information concerning the yet untravelled path that lies before us and which we may at any moment be called to enter.

Infidelity with its “leap in the dark” gives us but the sorry consolation of a still denser gloom.  It hangs over the already impenetrable cloud that enshrouds the future destiny of man, another veil still darker. The cloud of ignorance can be dissipated by the light of knowledge; but what can pierce the veil of unbelief ?

Heathenism with its vague and various answer to our questions concerning futurity, shows its utter inability to afford us the slightest information upon which we may rest as upon a permanent foundation. Its mysteries, its absurdities, its groundless assertions, its foolish vagaries, its ridiculous puerility, and its sublime nonsense; all but make confusion worse confounded and darkness more palpably obscure.

It remains then for revelation to supply the need. God understands this matter.  Before his glance eternity unfolds its vast extent. In him is no darkness at all.  He can remove the obscurity. Will he do it ? How important the question! How it masses up and condenses into a single sentence, the world wide anxiety of six thousand years! And how eagerly a curious and interested world may await at the portals of the eternal temple the response of that Divine Oracle, which cannot err and which will not lie! Upon this answer hangs our all.  It may change the current of our lives.  It may cast a shadow over the remnant of our fleeting years, or it may pour the light of brilliant hope, even into the darkest recesses of the sorrowing heart.