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ISLAMISM UNSUPPORTED, &c.

These topics might be considerably enlarged, but the question at issue is not in fact between Christianity and Mohammedanism, but between Christianity and no religion whatever; for we have seen, that the Moslem faith is untenable on any ground: it receives no countenance or support from miracles or prophecy: is opposed to former dispensations, and labours under such insuperable defects, as sufficiently shew, that it could not proceed from God.

    century,) when both tribes cherished the most violent rancour and animosity against each other, the great aim of this benevolent fanatic was to blend these jarring elements in peaceful union."—See Mills, page 421.

    It is lamentable to see how error is engendered in endless perpetuity; nothing can prove effectual to the conversion and healing of the nations, save that volume, which, as Locke has beautifully expressed it, ‘"has God for its author, salvation for its end, and truth without any alloy of error for its matter."