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by Mahomed Allee Pacha, this famous shrine 

 escaped, for some short time, that destruction which 

 I hope yet to see accomplished. 



I need not enter into details of our interesting 

 conversation, which only terminated with the setting 

 sun. All afternoon we lay discussing matters of 

 religion until it was fully understood by all that 

 I was a Christian Whaabbee ; and Ohmed Medina 

 taking hold of my beard, drew it gently through 

 his hand, as he said, that " an Ahkeem with such 

 a promise of wisdom as that, ought to be altogether 

 a Mussulman." " Thou almost persuadest me to be a 

 Christian," would have been a more gratifying speech 

 from my Islam companion, but I am no St. Paul. 



In my notes upon this conversation, I have 

 remarked that it is my firm conviction that the 

 believers in one God, who live according to the 

 moral precepts of the religion of Jesus, is the sect 

 to whom is reserved, the glory of reuniting in one 

 faith, the present divided family of man. Unitari- 

 anism, is the fore-coming shadow of this to be 

 universally acknowledged belief, and all who 

 profess its tenets should reflect, upon the important 

 object committed to their agency, and encouraged 

 by the high hope, that must result from their 

 thoughts upon the subject, they will perhaps 

 increase their endeavours to spread more widely, 

 the principles of faith which they profess. 



This observation is inserted solely as a matter of 

 what I conceive to be duty ; I hope, therefore, that 



