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■■ ^ 1 ■ 1 ■ j 1 ~• V~ ' V- Tbe war between Turkey and Russia baa given rise to a desire cn the pert of many to tmderstand the history of a system which has ■bad snob powerful effect on the history of the fcystem which forms the subject of onr own fctadit*, snd while anxious to know some- thing of a system wbljh lus eterdsed so powerful ad influence on a large portion of mankind, many will he more anxoius to call bp an Huge ot a man who bus wrought a greater change in the condition and histo ry of a great portion oi the world than nny tothet mere mi t n’t Much that we vruvll like to know on these questions is impossible, from A want on our port of suffoieut acquaintance with Eastern languages—yet we mast thank- (tally acknowledge the services of that class of scholars, whose writings take away many of the difficulties in our path. Before commencing the sbetoh of the life of the Mahometan prophet ; we take this oc casion to say th»t in Contrasting the three great monotheistic systems, we speak only of what may be called the orthodox belief of Jews, Christians and Mahometans. It is in no part the intention to discuss the genuine ness or divine origin of the sacred books of (be three systems. Whatever Mahomet moyi have been to the world at large, to the people Of his own country, he was one who taught In the midst of a debasing idolatry that there Is bat one God and none other} and who , Cpako ot righteousness, temperance and judgment to come. tfhtf main foot in the life of Mahomet are well authenticated facts of history. Born in MecO, the Eirfy city of Arabia, deriving his descent from the patriarch Abrahum,through the line of Iibmi e’, he started in life with hardly any possessions beyond his iUustriotiH dlscent He betaine an orphnn at an early age, and received os his share ot tho proper ty of his grand-iatber, no more than five Camels and one skive. On this account he in early life bacr to betake himself to a calling Which bis countrymen looked down npon, and like the Palmist oi Israel,spent u portion of hiB early days in tne calling ot a shepherd. We next find him in Ihe service of a rich Widow Kadi jab, wlicse commercial affuirs be superintended.' At the age of twenty five his fortune is nnde by a marriage with his employer, and by this means becamo wealthy and independent Until forty years of age, Mahomet still 1 d a quiet, private life—re markable in noth lug savo the general excel- lence of hie life and conversation. To this litre he joined tho rest of his countrymen in the idolatrous worship of Mecca, which con sists in tuvereuce for one Supreme Deity. Combined with the worship of interior pow ers, and especially certuin female beings who where looked upon as the daughters of God, He perceived now his higher calling and oonmetoed his prophetic career A. D.608. He a mounoes h itself the prophet of the Lord.as • the teaches of the only true religion sent • from God,’* sent to call hack his countrymen to that faith of their forefathers, Abraham and Ishmai'l. from which they had so grevi- ously departed. Mahomet's principal doc trine, "there is but xi.e God," is indeed the most sublime, the most sacred truth and the addition "Mohammed is Ins prophet," might cither us a sincere self-delusion or a pious fraud, in order tho more forcible to impress his principal doctriue.be excused or justified, had Mahomet imt lorfeiiud this indulgence by his severit) in cs abashing nud maintain- rag h.s prophetic dignity. At first he preached among a few special confidants, then publicly, in the taraily of HuscUem, of which he was a member, nud finally before all the people and wherever he found liear- vw. Ills annunciations ate given iu a bold er uud more absolute tone, than these of any other ambassador ot God. He preaches not only divine doctrines, i bat also the words of the Omnipotent. They are no longer to give God cotupuuion or interior powers of any kind, God is the Lord t»f the material and moral world, aud is id. ne to be worshiped— moral virtues uro to be practised and barba rous customs cast aside. God wiU judge all mankiud at the lust day,and will award them acoordidg to their deeds in this life, either everlasting happiness or everlasting punish ment Tho first advances of tho prophet were slow and difficult. He hud to war with prejudices, fanaticism, euyy and party hat red. During turee years he gained only lonrteen followers, the most prominent. ol whom were his wife and others of hit imme diate family. This limited number, howey- * er, uro those whose adlierenco wpb the best witness to his personal character. After tha death of Abu Taleb. the ruler of the tribe ot Korelsh, the government was given to one who impelled by undent family hatred to the family of the prophet indnoed the chief of the Korcischites to pronounce tho deoree ot death on Mahomet. "One sword from each tribe as a mark of natiounl vengeance, was to be thrust in his neart." lly the fidelity of some of his converts, ho saved himself by flight, and from thb date of bis flight (July 1G, G22 the commencement of tile tlegria) in tdxteeu days arrived at Me dium—tho city of tho book—the dtizens of which, haviug devoted themselves before this to the God of Mahomet, received him now with loud rejoicing. These with the fugu- fves from Mecca formed the first jiving germ 6t Mubonitts empire, and Islam (this is the pollution of the prophets religion) and its leundu now take their place la the history -ol the world. The peaeeiul prtuaher changes into tne til- h;f *udeo»(pierer, the teaching of (alth and righteousness change* into legislation perma nent needed for the uowboru commonwealth. This was developed and matured within teu X years to a majestic tree which overshaded all Arabia. Mahomet died in the 63rd year of his age and in tho tenth of his expulsion from Mecca. At hit death the greater part of tho tribes foil away. They are wou book by the wisdom of his suooesMr and the sword ol Omar. Such in brief were the main events in the life of the prophet, and we now pass to n consideration of his teachings, and in contrast to the two religions systems that had gone bofore his own. Each of tne three sys tems. Judaism, Christianity, and Isalam, claims aooordiug to the reoog nixed belief of their follow trs, to be the work of a personal founder. At first it would seem that Moses stands towards Judaism In the same relation in which Mahomet stands to Isaiam. In both cases the prophet is eminently the prophet of fab own nntiou. In both we find each proclaiming himself ns a divinely com missioned giver of a new law, and so leads the diciples of that law to a political conquest. It wlU be observed however that there are wide points of difference in the two casts In the history of Moses the political and re ligions elements ore throughout intermingled, bnt in its Listorieal aspect, the political comes beiore the religious, Moses is not charged with the first revelation of a new lnltb, or even with revival of a faith long since forgot- Ha aots from the first nndcr a divine commission, the first duty of which is to work the political deliverance ot his people from bondage. It is not till after that deliverance has been accomplished, that he delivers his code of 1 laws, moral, civil and ritual, the first work of Moses is the foundation of a common wealth, and foT that he legislates both iu to- llgious aud temporal matters, only bo far ns his people had daring tlidr bondage fallen away from the faith of Abrohum, is Moses a theological teacher. Ue is then primarily a law-giver, secondarily the prophet of a new or revived creed. His civil and canon law has influenced the laws and morals of all ohrisUon and suauy non-olirisiiaa nation*, but it was to one particular people alone that it was direotly addressed, on them alone was it directly binding. All the regulationb oi Moees wero directed to one grand ob ject, the independent and bounrubie dist ance of his people in tho reconquered country of their fathers, this explains tho severity with which he treated the Canuanites. The principal doctrine cf Mahomet men tioned above. Thorois but one God, and Mohammed la his prophet, is skillfully inter woven with the fsltb of ihe Jews and Chris tians, and is represented as its perfect crown. Mahomet comes us one sent to revive ihu faith of Abraham, and he too beoomea the fouuder and law-giver of a commonwealth. But he (titters from Moses, In that his prima ry chnroct* r is that of the preacher of a new revelation, Ids character as a rater aud law giver, is secondary bom in time aud idea. He is to stand forth as the preacher of truth and righteosness among an alieady settled community, he is not sent to deliver an op pressed nation from bondage, bnt his mission is directly addressed to all mankind, first as peaceful preacher, then as the conqueror, enforcing his teaching with the sword, his message is in both stages addressed to all who may come within the reuch of his persuasion or hn compulsion—unlike the nu-ssage of Moses—there is no nation whom it is his mis sion tu sweep from the earth without so maoh us the alternative of submission or tribute, where submission and conversion are alike, refbsed war with the Infidel can aover it would rcip’iire all mandkind lobe Members of bbe political sooiety. and the revelation cf IU origuttl prophet to be received as the rale of religious faith and practice, and as the groundwork of the whole civil jurisprudence ot those who accept its teaching. - The Koran whloh contains the revolation of Islam is the work of its founder. It pro claims itself as the word of God not written by the hand of Mahomet, bnt taken from his{ moath ; ahd ntMig save his nttumuoes taken down in his lifetime, docs the Mahometan accept as divine authority. The Jewish law oomea to us in another shape, a code incor porated In a history,a history whloh orthodox belief looks on as an autobiogruphy. The bookR of the Christ inn revelation arc bio graphical and are not the writings of its founder, but records of his lifo and of his dis courses, an J the actual discourses ,of Christ form but a portion of the writings which Un christian accepts as tho sacred hooks of his frith, Crux. TOBB CONTINUED. THE NEW HOME PRIME EMPLOYMENT EOR A YEAR, Less Than 4 Cents a Week. Make Hone Attractive ot j,_ miciNu THE SATURDAY EVENING POST, Which for more thnn 65 Year*, has been the Best Storj, Skrfth and Family Vapor. as Ik known oil over the United States. 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Christianity like Islamism, is a teaching addressed to all the world and not to linn alone, whllu the earliest records oi Juda ism ureBilent os to Ihe duty,or destiny of men beyond the paie, Christianity nud Islam alike announce themselves as the one truth, as the only way or salvation, as the one means of fered to the whole human race as the way to happiness In another. Ufa Of those silent beautiful triumihsof single unarmed teachers oi the Gospel over the nations of the eatth, Uumtsm knew nothing. To spiritual toachiug Christianity unlike either Judaism Islomism adds no political character what ever, Christianity like Islam, was first preach, ed in a siugle settled community, ‘and from that, like Islam it spread over a large part of the earth, but whenever it went it diffused it self purely as a system of divine and moral teachings. It diciples formed no political society, and at no time has it been held that Christians are bound as Christians to beootne subjects oi any parliclnr power, or to rale themselves-by auy particular civil precepts. 'Tfr true Christianity has oltied itself with civil power it has even been forced upon un willing people at tne swords point, but when this has happened, the appeal to the dvi arm has been something purely inddental while in the creed of Islam suoh an appeal is impressed us the first of religious duties. Thus of the three monotheistic systems given the world—Judaism predaims itself a» the divinity-given code ol a single nation whloh does not refuse converts, hut which, docs not seek them. Christianity proclaims itself as a divine- given system of frith and morals : the scat tered seeds of whloh, in silent growth and unbounded propagation, were to spread among the nations of tho earth, the most boutiful flowers of humanity tho most excel lent fruits ot knowledge and virtue. Islamism also proclaims itself as a divinely given system of frith and morals, and like Christianity addressed to alt mankind, bnt unliko Christianity is not content to make its way amcngimmkhid by moral forces only, tt)d dors uot leave political affairs ns it finds them, but proclaims itself as a system to bo cu'orcod by Uie sword. In its perfect theory WAS AWARDED TOB FIRST PREMIUM! At the Centennial Fxhlbltlnn, and hoe always carried off the htshcsi honors wherever exhibited. *• Perfroted eight eVtKItlUR in Stran - aHHTJBBfe Sewing Machine*. ............—,— without oobtiro ONE CPNTfor wJPA* R . s * In the ManufWotura oftnis MACHINE Uro 'pS|f| ION, SILK or LINEN, SEWING from the IfpASSjttuUna to Smwp and .n2tfficmw* A0H ' HB ?hot Warranted for Five Years. LIVE AGENTS wanted in localities whero —* are not represented. lend for prices, and samples of work dona the HOME, or call at any of our offices. 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