MAHOMEDANISM IN THE INDIAN ARCHIPELAGO. 460 
weighing hay and thistles on, pleasures and pains on:-~Ifyou 
ask me which gives, Mahomet or they, the beggarlier and 
falser view of Man and his Destinies in this Universe, I will 
answer. It is not Mahomet!- 
On the whole, we will repeat that this Religion of Maho¬ 
met’s is a kind of Christianity ; has a genuine element of what 
is spiritually highest looking through it, not to be hidden by 
all its imperfections The Scandinavian God Wish, the god 
of all rude men,—this has been enlarged into a Heaven by 
Mahomet; but a Heaven symbolical of sacred Duty, and to 
be earned by faith and welldoing, by valient action, and a 
divine patience which is still more valiant. It is Scandina¬ 
vian Paganism, and a truly celestial element superadded to that. 
Call it not false; look not at the falsehood ot it, look at the 
truth of it. For these twelve centuries, it has been the reli¬ 
gion and life-guidance of the fifth part of the whole kindred 
of Mankind Above all things, it has been a religion heartily 
beloved . These Arabs believe their religion, and try to live 
by it! No Christians, since the early ages, or only perhaps 
the English Puritans in modern times, have ever stood by their 
Faith as the Moslem do by theirs,—believing it wholly, front¬ 
ing Time with it, and Eternity with it. This night the watch¬ 
man on the streets Cairo when he cries, ‘‘Who goes V* will 
hear from the passenger along with his answer, “There is no 
God but God/’ Allah ahbar , Islam , sounds through the 
souls, and whole daily existence, of these dusky millions. Zea¬ 
lous missionaries preach it abroad among Malays, black Pa¬ 
puans, brutal Idolaters;—displacing what is worse, nothing 
that is better or good. 
Thomas Carlyle 
MALAY AMOKS REFERRED TO MAHOMEDANISM. 
Sentence of death upon a Malay convicted 
of running amolc 
Sunan, you stand convicted on the clearest evidence of the 
wilful murder of Pakir Sail on Wednesday last and it appears 
* On the 8th July 1846, Sunan, a respectable Malay house-builder in 
Finang, ran amok iu Chuliah Street and Pinang road, and before he was 
arrested killed an old Hindu woman, a Kiing, a Chinese boy, and a Kling girl 
about 3 years old in the arms of Us father, and wounded two Hindus, three 
