II; Among the Prophets 



IT was my fortune recently in an old New- 

 England primer to come upon a list of 

 the true prophets, the spelling of whose names 

 and the facts of whose existence every Christian 

 child shovdd know. And among those who had 

 known and followed the true God, I found not 

 Saul, but Mahomet — ^branded. "A celebrated 

 impostor who pretended to be a prophet." 

 Clearly there was no more to be said. Nor should 



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