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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.

representatives from the states which formed

the nucleus of the nation to-day recognized as

one of the leading powers of the world, that

the American Constitution was framed. Of this

document Gladstone says: “The American

Constitution is the most wonderful work ever

struck off at a given time by the brain of man.”

The words of the Declaration of Independence

state the principles upon which the new

government was founded. “We hold these

truths to be self-evident, that all men are

created equal, that they are endowed by their

Creator with certain unalienable rights.... That,

to secure these rights, governments are

instituted among men, deriving their just

powers from the consent of the governed.”

This was a deathblow to the papal hierarchy;