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THE STORY OF THE SEER OF PATMOS

Stephen N. Haskell

“Seal not the sayings of the prophecy of this book: for the time is at
hand” Revelation 22:10.

devil will be destroyed. The work that man

would have done, if sin had not entered, Christ

will do. Instead of their home being simply a

garden, there will be the beautiful city

enclosing the garden.

The human mind can but faintly grasp the idea

of spiritual existence; and the best that mortal

man can do, is to compare the glory of eternity

with those things which are divinely

appointed to foreshadow the things of the

eternal world.

The ear of man catches but the smallest

proportion of the sounds which are

everywhere about him; his eye sees but little

that light in reality reveals; so narrow is the

sphere in which we live. God has spoken of the