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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.
earth, having in his hand a little book open.
Not closed, not sealed, but open. It was at the
close of the second woe, in 1840, that this
angel with the open book of Daniel, set one
foot on the land and one on the sea. Men were
busy with their idolatry, they were heaping
gold together, rushing to and fro, neither
seeing nor hearing anything, save that which
ministered to their earthly desires. Nations
were busy with their own schemes, unmindful
of the overruling hand of Providence. But the
angel’s message embraced the whole earth:
standing with one foot on the earth and the
other on the sea, “he cried with a loud voice”
like the roar of a lion in the forest, and this cry
awoke men from their slumber, and startled
nations. No man was too humble, no place too
