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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.

independent of heaven. When the Sun of

Righteousness withdraws His shining, men

left without Christ are as the world without

the sunlight. This is the time of Jacob’s trouble,

spoken of by the prophets; it is the time of the

outpouring of the plagues; for when Christ

turns from the world, all the elements are

broken up, and man is left to contend, single-

handed, with disease and death. The plagues

described in the sixteenth chapter of

Revelation are the unmingled wrath of God.

Men, living under the warming influence of

the sun, cannot imagine what existence would

be, were the sun blotted out. So the human

race, which has known life only with the light

of love shining on it, cannot foretell the

awfulness when conditions change. The