Page 21 - 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.

patronage; or when this was impossible, they

entered Protestant schools under the guise of

Protestant teachers. Everywhere they gained

the children and the youth. They were more

zealous, more ambitious than the Protestants,

consequently the succeeding generation

surprised the Reformers by turning a large

part of Europe back under papal control. Their

work was most fully developed in France. That

country had received the light of the

Reformation, but on this ground the Jesuits

found excellent material. The universities of

France clung to their old methods, and they

likewise clung to the subjects taught during

the Dark Ages. Under the forms and

ceremonies of Mediaevalism, papal principles

of government lurked, ready to spring into