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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.

surrendered all rights into the hands of the

combined forces of Western Europe. In the

official document drawn up by the

representatives of the nations concerned, are

these words: “It having been felt that all the

zealous labors of the conferences of London in

the settlement of the pasha’s pretensions

were useless, and that the only public way was

to have recourse to coercive measures to

reduce him to obedience in case he persisted

in not listening to pacific overtures, the

powers have, together with the Ottoman

plenipotentiary, drawn up and signed a treaty

whereby the sultan offers the pasha the

hereditary government of Egypt, ...the pasha,

on his part, evacuating all other parts of the

sultan’s dominions now occupied by him and