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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 Hun. On the death of Attila he entered the

service of the Roman princes. Step by step he

advanced in the army until he was granted the

title of patrician by Nepos, and made master-

general of the troops. On the expulsion of

Nepos, Orestes was offered the purple, but

refused it; consenting, however, that his son,

Augustulus, should become emperor of the

West. Augustulus was a mere tool in the hands

of the numerous barbarians who were now in

Italy and upon her borders. The confederate

tribes demanded one-third of the land of Italy,

and when the request was refused, they

united their forces under the leadership of

Odoacer, the son of a barbarian, who had

himself followed the great leader of the Huns,

and then accepted a position in the Roman