Page 15 - 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.

driven out the papacy, to seat

Mohammedanism in place of Christianity in

the City of Seven Hills. But in 732 a. d., the

onward progress of the Saracens was checked

by Charles Martel, in the battle of Tours, in

France, and relinquishing the hope of gaining

Europe on the west, the Mohammedans

retreated into Spain. Here they established

schools, and by the cultivation of the arts and

sciences, won, by the intellect, what they had

failed to gain by the sword. It was from

Toledo, Salerno, and other Spanish centers of

learning, that the light of scientific knowledge

shone into the darkness of Europe during the

Middle Ages, and acted its part in breaking the

strength of the papacy at the dawn of the

Reformation.