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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.

In the beginning, when all things in the

universe perfectly obeyed the divine law;

when worlds performed their revolutions

throughout space in perfect unison, and in the

universe of God there was not one note of

discord, then He spake, and our world came

into existence; He commanded and it stood

forth, and a shout rang from the sons of God;

for they saw another work of His hands. Man

upon it was as truly in harmony with the law

of God as nature itself; and God pronounced all

things very good. In innocency man was

placed here in a home prepared of God, and

there was but one thing for him to

accomplish,-this was strength of character,

which would link humanity and divinity into

one. With the fall of man, a cloud rested on the