From the foreword:

Restoration! What a blessed word! It calls to mind the thought that
the lost can be found, the wayward can be restored, the sinner can
be forgiven.

The theme for this year’s lectures is a fitting companion to the
theme in 2010. Last year our writers focused on the period of Babylonian
captivity and the many practical lessons that can be learned
from such an awful time. We have watched the relevance of that
theme be played out vividly before our eyes as the United States of
America has slipped deeper and deeper into moral decay. Now we
will be reminded that God had a plan all along to restore his people
if they would but turn back to him.