Page 21 - 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.

and it is also not surprising to find that the tail

of a horse was often used as an ensign by the

Bedouin chiefs. The crown worn by the Arab,

was the turban which was unfurled when

Mohammed became prince of Medina, and “to

assume which is proverbially to turn

Mussulman.” Personally the Arab is grave and

dignified; “his speech is slow, weighty, and

concise; he is seldom provoked to laughter, his

only gesture is that of stroking his beard, the

venerable symbol of manhood.” Though they

wore long hair, which to the European has the

appearance of effeminacy, yet from the days of

Ishmael, a tenderness mingled with the

savage nature of the lion, seems to have

characterized the men of the desert Gibbon, in

his. graphic description of the Arab, nicely