visit of the angels who took the three year old child, laid him on a couch and took out his heart, wringing from it the one black drop of original sin inherited from Adam, and returned it, filled with high resolve. For legends about Mahomet, and the prophets before him, are many, and the men of the desert, like other dreamers, have made fables sometimes fair and sometimes grotesque.
Still, in some ways and respects, the guiding rules for daily conduct would have been much the same as now. The shining thread of fair play is not confined to those of the Christian religion, and it has been well said that there is not a single noble sentiment or lofty aspiration in the New Testament that cannot be paralleled in one or another of the other scriptures of the world. For instance, take the Christian sentiments on brotherhood, you find, in the Mohammedan, as equally of value, this: "Be good to thy neighbor whether he be of your own people or a stranger." Take again the beatitude, "Blessed are the pure in heart," and compare it with the Mahommedan "A man's true wealth is the good he does in the world." Or in the matter of intellectual honesty we have in the Christian teaching, the injunction that we should "Put away living, speak every man the truth with his neighbor," while the Mahommedan bids us, "Hide not the truth when you know it, clothe it not with falsehood."
There are others in plenty, commandments and adjurations, which are guides to conduct in every way satisfactory. Thus:
