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Rh grows too violent, to ubmit even to the utmot exertions of their kill, they end for a Mulna, who comes to the bedide of the ick peron, and putting his hand over him, feels that part of his body mot affected and repeats, with a degree of ervency, ome pious prayers, by the efficacy of which, it is uppoed the patient will peedily recover. The Mahometans meet death with uncommon reignantion and fortitude, conidering it only as the, means of enlarging them from a tate of mortal captivity; and opening to them a free and glorious paage to the manions of blis. Thoe ideas conole them on the bed of icnes; and even amid the pangs of diolution,