Page 28 - 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.

of the city fell.” The “beast” received its deadly

wound. Not only was the reign of papal

tyranny at an end, but the power of the

monarchy was shaken; and the vast army of

nobles, which some historians give as seven

thousand, lost their titles. The government

was in the hands of the middle classes, or the

common people. The exaltation of the

Scriptures is always followed by a

government which recognizes the equal rights

of all men, and by a religion which grants the

privilege to every man to worship according

to the dictates of his own conscience. Men who

advocate a system of government that rejects

the atoning blood of Christ, or an educational

system which exalts reason above faith, place

themselves on the very verge of a precipice,