Page 5 - 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.

Mohammedanism in its attempt to conquer

the western nations met with a telling defeat

in the eighth century, and never renewed the

attempt. So the West stood before the world

as the representative of the Christian religion.

Here the principles of civil and religious

liberty, to-day held dear, were born: and here,

likewise, was committed to these nations, in a

special manner, the everlasting Gospel, with

the commission to make it known to the

world. God was preparing, from afar, for the

spread of the last message to the world.

To John was given a measuring reed, “and the

angel stood, saying, Rise, and measure the

temple of God, and the altar, and them that

worship therein.” Men have as many

standards for measuring their fellow-beings