Page 7 - 04a The Seven Churhces-Sardis

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.

was offered to England. The history of

England was, for a time, a struggle between

the papacy, and Protestantism under the

name of Puritanism. The Commonwealth was

Puritanism in power; and it was then

demonstrated that there was not yet strength

enough to resist the crown of tyranny when it

lay within the grasp of man. England returned

allegiance to her own royal family; but so

strong were the principles of Protestantism

that her government has been, since the days

of the Commonwealth, a government by the

people. It was in England that the first Anglo-

Saxon branches of Protestantism had birth,

and it was because of lack of freedom in the

mother country, that separatists from the

English church sought homes in America.