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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.
wisest management, a socialistic Directory
was avoided. Instead, the motion for a
provisional government, prevailed. A
constitution was adopted which provided for
a president who should serve for a term of
four years. Louis Napoleon was elected first
president of the new French Republic. This
was the eventful year of 1848. Judson, in his
work entitled “Europe in the Nineteenth
Century,” says this revolution “was like a
lighted match touched to the dry prairie grass
after a drought. The flames flashed at once
throughout the continent.” In Germany “new
ministries were installed which were pledged
to a liberal policy.” “Prussia and Austria were
thoroughly disturbed by the movement for
freedom and national unity.” In Germany
