Page 20 - 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.

educated in the tents, among the children of

the Arabs, with a tender familiarity, which

trains them in the habits of gentleness and

attachment. They are accustomed only to walk

or to gallop; their sensations are not blunted

by the incessant abuse of the spur and the

whip; their powers are preserved for the

moments of flight and pursuit; but no sooner

do they feel the touch of the hand, or the

stirrup, than they dart away with the

swiftness of the wind; and if their friend be

dismounted in the rapid career, they instantly

stop till he has recovered his seat.” Since so

much of the success of these human locusts

depended upon the steeds which they rode, it

is not surprising that the prophet John saw

them “like unto horses prepared unto battle;”