Page 19 - 12 The Third Woe

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 spread largely through the schools. In

Germany, the University of Wittenberg made

the study of the Word its most prominent

feature, and at the educational centers in

England, Germany, and France the heralds of

truth received their inspiration and their

training. In the preparation of laborers; the

Scriptures formed the basis of all instruction;

and as the classics and false sciences of the

Dark Ages gave way to the Bible as a textbook,

so the formal, lifeless methods of theological

instruction were exchanged for teaching

which fed the souls of the students. The

remarkable swiftness with which society was

remolded when the Word of God was restored

is witnessed to by all historians. The historian,

Ranke, states that in the short period of forty