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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.

“Word of God, and for the Testimony of Jesus

Christ.”

It is a beautiful thought that he whose heart

was so bound up in Jerusalem and the Hebrew

race, and who was always so true to both,

should have been permitted to see the glories

of the New Jerusalem, the city finally to take

the place of his own earthly Zion. To him was

given the entire history of the church of God,

which must do the work rejected by his own

race.

The road from the Jordan to the rocky height

of Patmos was a steep and stony way; but

when he sat alone upon the mountain side

overlooking the sea, the intense love, the soul

union with Christ, which those previous years

had developed, enabled that “disciple whom