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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.
Isles. From the central portion of western
Asia, the Gospel was spread as the life and
light of all mankind.
Near the close of the sixth century there was
born in Mecca, of the princes of Arabia, a man
who claimed direct descent from Ishmael, the
son of Abraham. This man was Mohammed,
the son of Abdallah, and the founder of a
faith, which, to-day has many thousand
adherents. “Arabia,” says Gibbon, “was free;
the adjacent kingdoms were shaken by the
storms of conquest and tyranny, and
persecuted sects fled to the happy land where
they might profess what they believed, and
practice what they professed.” In Arabia were
gathered, at this time, Christians, Jews,
