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DISCUSSION. 
The CuarrMan.—Is there any lady or gentleman who would like 
to make any remarks on the paper that has just been read P 
The Secretary.—I may mention that the author of this paper is 
a Christian missionary in the Persian Gulf. He has written this 
paper and sent it to us, having a great knowledge of the subject 
and having actual contact with these various Mohammedan sects, 
and I think we are much indebted to him for this voluminous 
statement of the history of the Wahabis. 
The CHAIRMAN. 
I think this is a very interesting account of this 
Mohammedan sect. They may, it seems to me, be regarded as 
Puritans in their having effected a certain amount of reform by 
their austerity and so forth in regard to the habits of Oriental 
nations. On this point their fanaticism is probably even more 
pronounced than that of the true Mohammedans. 
i went last Wednesday and heard Professor Margoliouth com- 
paring the Bible with other religious books; and in the course of 
his remarks he spoke of the Mohammedans and their book, the 
Koran, and one of the things he pointed out, which seemed to me 
to be a very sensible and just remark to make, was that in 
Mohammedanism there is this one thing, which was also the case 
in certain other sects, that the religion seems to have been insti- 
tuted for the glorification of one man, viz., Mohammed.  Chris- 
tianity, on the other hand, and in fact the writers of the books of 
the Bib‘e in general, cannot be said by any means to have gained 
