At last he ceased, and, gazing steadfastly upward, said, in broken accents: "O God--forgive my sins--be it so.

I come." Shall we speak of this man with disrespect?
His precepts are, at this day, the religious guide of one-third of the human race.
DOCTRINES OF MOHAMMED.

In Mohammed, who had already broken away from the ancient idolatrous worship of his native country, preparation had been made for the rejection of those tenets which his Nestorian teachers had communicated to him, inconsistent with reason and conscience.

And, though, in the first pages of the Koran, he declares his belief in what was delivered to Moses and Jesus, and his reverence for them personally, his veneration for the Almighty is perpetually displayed.

He is horror-stricken at the doctrine of the divinity of Jesus, the Worship of Mary as the mother of God, the adoration of images and paintings, in his eyes a base idolatry.