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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.



               upon which the church stands. It is not a stone


               slipping away, a sliding foundation, but a solid



               foundation upon which the living church rests.


               To-day the record of that typical service, emits


               light to the one who will search it. True, it does


               not  have  the  full  blaze  of  sunlight  like  the


               record of the antitypical Offering, but there is


               a  mild  and  gentle  light  emitted  from  it  that


               well repays the searcher after truth.



               Around  the  head  of  the  church  clustered


               twelve stars, representing the twelve apostles,


               who  became  the  fathers  of  the  Christian


               church,  their  names  are  also  on  the  twelve


               foundation stones of the New Jerusalem.



               The followers of Christ are the special objects


               of  care  in  the  courts  of  heaven,  and  there
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