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 dispensations, allowedly proceeding from God: it is obviously neither the confirmation or counterpart of any preceding revelation. Christianity is to Judaism what the splendor of the meridian sun is to the dawning day: the crescent of Mohammed is indicative of the dark night of error and confusion, in which its votaries are involved. "To him was given the key of the bottomless pit, and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace: and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit ." Mohammedanism opposes the Gospel in the most essential part, and that which renders it worthy of all acceptation, viz. as a remedial dispensation in the hands of a Mediator, exactly suited to the wants and circumstances of fallen creatures; just as if no previous notification had been given of its interesting design, viz. "God in Christ reconciling the world