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dan prince in the work now before me, where it is expressly said, 

 " slay the infidels without distinction, wheresoever thou canst find 

 them" was a power given by the Almighty Avenger to his prophet 

 Mahomed, and to no other. But the Christian apostle, the Holy 

 Messiah, according to universal admission, was not invested by the 

 Almighty with the power of the sword, and never did undertake a 

 holy war." The power of working miracles, the supernatural gift 

 of languages, and the extraordinary operations of the Holy Spirit, 

 sealed the ministry of the first apostles; mild persuasion, impres- 

 sive conviction, united to a corresponding life and practice, marked 

 the character of the primitive teachers, and were the most power- 

 ful engines of proselytism ; their successors in every age, and in 

 every nation, must regulate their conduct by such examples, if 

 they wish to disseminate the truth of Christianity. 



I admit most of the arguments in the following cmotations ; 

 they are too obvious to be mistaken by an unprejudiced mind, 

 and convince us of the necessity of blending the wisdom of the 

 serpent with the innocence of the dove, in undertaking the great 

 work of religious and moral improvement among a people so 

 rivetted to ancient usages as the Hindoos. 



" Of the actual system for the administration of justice to the 

 native subjects of British India, I wish to speak with respect; because 

 it originated and has been continued in the purest intentions. On 

 the political question I presume to risk but one short observation. 

 It is impossible to separate the political tendency of laws from 

 the genius of the government from which they emanate. The 

 spirit of the English constitution assigns to the mass of the people 

 an extensive control over the exercise of public authority; and 



