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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.

face of the whole earth: the first glory was

shrouded, and the world itself, was, at the time

of the flood, turned out of its course. At

creation, the waters filled the earth and there

were no rains; but the ground was watered

from beneath, by a mist which arose. At the

flood, the fountains of the great deep were

broken up, and the waters poured forth in

great streams. Since that time, a large portion

of the surface of our world, has been covered

with vast seas. This was not so in the

beginning. When sin filled the earth, God

destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah by fire from

heaven. Those two cities in the plain of the

Jordan were destroyed for an object lesson of

the destruction of the earth; and since that

time, there has been fire within the earth,-the