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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.

priest of Rome.” One by one, the barbarians,

ancestors of all the nations of modern Europe,

bowed the knee to Rome, and crowned her

queen of the earth. From each nation,

throughout the period of her supreme rule,

she gathered her stores of wealth.

For years England, as a government, paid to

Rome a tribute of a thousand marks. Likewise

from each country, Rome drew the money

which was needed for national defense. The

poor were robbed by the payment of penance

and the buying of indulgences. During the time

of the Crusades, nations arose as a whole

people, at the bidding of Rome. Relics, the

bones of saints and martyrs, bits of the cross,

the nails,-all such things were exchanged for

gold.