Page 14 - 10 The Beginning of Woes

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 Syria, were keeping the law of God; but the

tonsured priests and monks were to be slain

without mercy, unless they accepted the faith

of Mohammed and paid tribute. Syria was

soon wholly in the hands of the Saracens.

In 638 the conquest of Egypt was begun. The

conquest of Africa, from the Nile to the

Atlantic, was attempted by the caliph Othman

in 647; but the Moors were not conquered

until the beginning of the next century, and

then the Moslem faith was accepted from

Syria to the Straits of Gibraltar. In 711 the

Arabs crossed these straits into Spain, and the

horn of the Crescent, the Moslem standard,

reached the Pyrenees. Thus the power of their

arms was extended. They had hoped to

encircle the Mediterranean, and, having