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 Now the throne of the caliphs was extinguished by the Tartar Turks, led on by the great grandson of the famous Zingis Khan: and at the time when these Tartar hordes overthrew the caliph they professed paganism, and not Mahometanism. Those who would wish for fuller details of this portion of Mahometan history, if they have not time to refer to the larger histories, should by all means read the admirable lectures "on the Turks," published lately by that eminent writer, Father Newman, the superior of the Oratorians in England.

It appears from contemporary history that those, who witnessed the extinction of the caliphate by their Tartar conquerors, fully calculated on the utter destruction of Mahometanism. They saw the principal head of the Mahometan beast wounded to death, and they saw the Mahometan empire in its principal head, the caliphate, overthrown; but what was their wonder, what the horror in all Christian lands, when they saw that the deadly wound was healed, and that though the principal head of the Mahometan power had been destroyed, the natural effect of that event did not ensue!

But what does this healing refer to? I will say no more of Bishop Newton's theories, but I answer at once, it signified the conversion of