Page 18 - 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.

European soil. History states, that the general

stood at the head of one hundred and twenty

thousand Arabs and Persians, and that one

thousand eight hundred ships approached the

Bosporus, both armies intending to attack the

capital at the same moment. Again Greek fire

saved the threatened empire. The citizens of

Constantinople loaded ships with

combustibles, sent these into the midst of the

fleet of the enemy, and the Arabs with their

arms and vessels were consumed by the

flames or the waves. The following winter was

unusually severe, and this, together with the

aid rendered the Greeks by an army of

Bulgarians, and the report of still stronger

forces who were arming in the West, made it

advisable to give up, this second attempt, to