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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.
finally made martyrdom impossible. These
two principles then came into existence under
the names of Protestantism and democracy.
Protestantism, representing the religious
phase of society; democracy, or the principle
which recognizes the equal rights of all
mankind, representing the civil government.
In other words, the results of the sixteenth
century Reformation were not seen alone in
the organization of Protestant churches;
but there was at the same time a protest
against the absolute monarchy which had
borne sway for a thousand years. Under these
conditions the salvation of the cause
demanded a new soil for the cultivation of
freedom. For this purpose God had already
opened America and Southern Africa. The
