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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.



               France was unfortunate enough to have sown


               an  abundance  of  seed,  and  consequently



               reaped a bountiful harvest. France is the only


               nation that ever openly denied the existence


               of the Deity, and set up a worship recognizing


               no other ruler than the “Goddess of Reason.” A


               woman, a profligate opera singer, was set up


               in Paris as a personification of reason, the god


               which  France  acknowledged.  No  other


               government ever made so base a movement.


               Men and women danced and sang in honor of


               the  base  idolatry.  Other  parts  of  France


               imitated the example set by Paris. The woman,


               veiled and worshiped in form, was but a type


               of what men will do when reason is enthroned


               above God. The decree prohibiting the Bible,


               changing  the  week,  and  establishing  the
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