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raised from the dead: and as this sign shall at length be acknowledged Over all the earth, none other shall be given but those which the spirit of the Gospel worketh in the heart of every man.
Nay but, said Havilah, one other dispensation there has already been, and new signs attested it. — The revelations of God have been six; and the sixth is that of Mohammed.
As I have said, replied Eber, Mohammed was wise, and many things which he said were true: but I believe that those truths had been told before, and that his wisdom was not from above. Read again, and meditate as thou hast meditated this day, and it shall be plain unto thee that there is nothing true, or pure, or lofty, which may not be found in the teachings of Jesus; nothing just, or mild, or holy, which was not in his character; nothing awful, which was not in his mission; nothing that righteous men can desire, which that mission had not secured to them. Tell me of any mighty sign which Mohammed has done, and which Christ did not surpass: tell me of any innocent desire which Mohammed was more ready than Jesus to fulfil; of any hope or fear given by Jesus, which Mohammed hath exalted; tell me of any
