Excerpt from Morning Hours in Patmos: The Opening Vision of the Apocalypse, and Christ's Epistles to the Seven Churches of Asia It was a bright moonlight. The solemn still ness of surrounding waters, and the shadowy out lines of silent Patmos, were quite consonant with the grandeur and dark prophetic shading of the Apocalypse. During those quiet early hours, and whilst the morning sun poured his rays on the zegean Sea, the author read and naturally with special interest - the Opening Vision of John. The thoughts which here follow were then, for substance, suggested to him. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.