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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.

nations have been oppressed. The pagan

Roman Empire was lordly and dictatorial; but

oppression before the days of the papacy,

sank into insignificance, when compared with

the tyranny of the woman clad in purple and

scarlet, seated upon the scarlet colored beast.

Claiming to be the vicegerent of God on earth,

Rome held souls in her grasp, and assigned

them at will, to heaven or hell, or demanded

the payment of any price for their release from

purgatory.

The messages sent to Babylon, the city,

concerning its overthrow, were repeated to

Rome in the person of the martyrs. Wycliffe,

Huss, Jerome, Luther, Melanchthon,-these,

and hundreds of others, God used as a

mouthpiece to proclaim the impending fall of