Page 28 - 13 The Great Controversy

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.

of Mohammedanism; in the West, it was the

papacy.

At last the earth itself grew weary of the evil.

God broke the power of the tyranny. He raised

up rulers who opposed the power of the

papacy, and who espoused the cause of the

reformers, and sheltered them from the

anathemas hurled after them. This was

especially true among the German princes at

the Diet of Spires, and the same spirit

characterized William of Orange in the

Netherlands, and some of the English rulers;

and the help which the earth gave, was seen

especially in the refuge offered to the

persecuted souls on the shores of America.