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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.



               active  service  at  the  first  opportunity.  The


               renewal of these teachings wrought the same



               effect in the  sixteenth century  that the  false


               teachings of the Alexandrian philosophers did


               in the church of the early Christians.



               One  cannot  condemn  the  Jesuit  teaching  as


               wholly evil. It was as subtile a mixture of the


               good and evil as the devil ever compounded. It


               was  when  the  two  witnesses  were  escaping


               from  the  bondage  of  the  Dark  Ages,  where


               they had finished their testimony in sackcloth,


               that  the  beast,  which  ascended  out  of  the


               bottomless  pit,  made  war  against  them  and


               overcame them, and killed them.



               The Counter-Reformation, known as such by


               all historians, was felt throughout Europe; but
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