Page 26 - 07 History of the Seals

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.

prophet states that the sun, the moon, and the

stars, should all be darkened. “The sun and the

moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall

withdraw their shining.” The accounts of the

dark day in 1780 agree with this. It appeared

to those who witnessed the phenomenon,

that the darkness at its height could not have

been more dense, had every luminary been

blotted out of existence. One writer says, “The

darkness of the following evening was

probably as deep and dense as ever had been

observed since the Almighty first gave birth to

light.... A sheet of white paper, held within a

few inches of the eyes, was equally invisible

with the blackest velvet.... The denseness of

this evening darkness was a fact universally