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 same time, it must be allowed to be a different question, whether Protestant States may impose civil disabilities on the profession of certain tenets judged inimical to the public weal, because such a measure is not designed to make men believe any thing, but to prevent the moral and political mischiefs which would ensue from their uncontroled acting on principles already professed. Be this however as it may, compulsion can be of no real service in advancing the interests of Christianity, which prefers its claims to acceptance on far different grounds. We must watch the openings of Providence, and follow where they would lead. God is never at a loss for means to accomplish his will.

The Wahabees once struck terror through the Ottoman world. "The Musulmans heard with horror, that the shrines of Mohammedan saints in Arabia had been violated, and the chapels at Mecca, consecrated to the memory