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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.



               clearness of the noonday rays. Thousands, in


               all quarters of the globe testify to the saving



               health in the Sabbath observance.



               The number of the servants of our God is now


               being made up. “I heard the number of them


               which were sealed: and there were sealed an


               hundred and forty and four thousand of all the


               tribes  of  the  children  of  Israel.”  Character


               alone  is  the  basis  of  the  sealing  work.  The


               promise  of  the  new  earth  was  made  to


               Abraham,  Isaac,  and  Jacob;  but  the  literal


               descendants  of  these  patriarchs,  failed  to


               develop a character which would place upon


               them a seal of the living God, and they were


               rejected  as  a  nation.  Then  the  Gentiles,  like


               branches  from  a  wild  olive  tree,  were,


               contrary  to  nature,  grafted  into  the  Jewish
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