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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.

The treatment of Columbus by the Spanish

government, one of the daughters of Rome, is

an illustration of the tyranny exercised over

body and mind. Gallileo, who introduced the

truth of astronomical discoveries into Italy,

incurred the displeasure of Rome, and was

pursued by the Inquisition. Later, after the

supremacy of Rome was broken, and the

queen sat a widow, her children carried out

the same principles. England had not lost the

spirit when she taxed her colonies, and

impressed their seamen. France has never

fully recovered; for she still bears arbitrary

rule over her possessions. Italy, once a

wealthy kingdom, was drained of its wealth by

the papacy. Examples might be multiplied

without number. It is enough to say that