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to the sick, and creating food for those who hungered: — but did God favor him in the solitude of caves, as he favored his greatest Prophet? Did he send Gabriel to him? Did he take him up to heaven while men slept? And could these things happen to a false prophet?
No false prophet hath ever been thus favored: — but was Mohammed? The followers of Jesus saw how he raised Lazarus from the dead, and cleansed the lepers, and fed the multitudes. Some saw also that one from heaven strengthened him when he prayed sorrowfully before his death; and others beheld the messengers in shining raiment who opened his sepulchre; — but who was nigh when, as Mohammed said, Gabriel came to him in the cave? and what eye beheld the Prophet ascend to heaven and return?
There is, replied Havilah, a better evidence than that of the eyes of men, be they as numberless as the stars of the firmament.
There is, replied his friend; it is the truth which speaks to the heart. This evidence I find in the Gospel of Christ, but not in the teachings of Mohammed.
