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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.

commerce of the world was controlled by this

one power; and the wealth of the East and the

West was laid at her feet. She sent ships to the

islands for their spices and to the land of Ophir

for its gold. The elephants of India and Ceylon

yielded their ivory for her palaces and the

ships of Tyre brought metals from the mines

of Spain and the shores of the Mediterranean.

Her lofty structures were built by slaves from

captive nations. Her kings, like all Oriental

monarchs, were absolute in their authority,

and the bodies and souls of men were in

bondage to great Babylon.

Her treatment of the Jewish race, who for

seventy years were held as slaves, was

rewarded by the complete downfall of the

kingdom. First, it fell into the hands of a