of the Prophet and his family, had been levelled with the ground. But the army of the Othmans recaptured the sacred city, and the appearance, at this critical conjuncture[1], of the plague and small pox among the Wahabees, saved the mighty fabric of Islamism[2]."
What effect the struggles of the Greeks, or the more formidable attacks that threaten them, may produce, are foreign to our discussion: we are to mark the indications of Providence, and direct our attention where they point the way. The path of duty is to use lawful means, either by sending Missionaries, or copies of the Scriptures, and other useful works, leaving the result in humble submission to His will, to whom alone the times and seasons belong. Ample. encouragement is vouchsafed to us in the certainty that Anti-Christ must fall, the fullness of the Gentiles
