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BY MIRACLES.
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comfort and future happiness through the Saviour. "I tell you," says Christ, "my sheep are not restricted to any particular fold: many shall come from the north and south and set down with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven: salvation and forgiveness of sins are to be proclaimed to all nations through the Saviour, beginning at Jerusalem where he was crucified, and proceeding from thence to every clime, without distinction or difference as to the parties, every one possessing a rational soul, and capable of being the subject of divine revelation, is invited to participate in these privileges[1].

  1. The Seeks or Sikhs profess to have improved on Mohammedanism. "In the religion of this people, the fables of Mohammedanism are united with the absurdities of the Hindu superstition, for Nanac Shah, the founder of the nation, wished to harmonize both. Born in a province on the extreme verge of India, at the very point where the religion of Mohammed, and the idolatrous worship of the Hindus appeared to touch, and at a time (the middle of the fifteenth