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TO THE CHRISTIAN PUBLIC.
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Editor, would equally avail the Hindoos. Have they
not accounts and records handed down to them, relating"
to the wonderful miracles stated to have been performed
by their saints, such as Ugustyu, Vushistu, and Gotum ;
and their gods incarnate, such as Ram, Krishnu, and
Nursingh ; in presence of their contemporary friends
and enemies, the wise and the ignorant, the select and
the multitude ?—Could not the Hindoos quote in sup-
port of their narrated miracles, authorities from the
histories of their most inveterate enemies the Jeins, who
join the Hindoos entirely in acknowledging the truth
and credibility of their miraculous accounts ? The only
difference which subsists between these two parties on
this subject, is, that the Hindoos consider the power of
performing miracles given to their gods and saints by
the Supreme Deity, and the Jeins declare that thev
performed all those astonishing works by Asoorce Shukti,
or by demoniac power. Moosulmans, on the other hand,
can produce records written and testified by contempora-
ries of Mohummud, both friends and enemies, who are
represented as eye-witnessess of the miracles ascribed to
him ; such as his dividing the moon into two parts, and
walking in sunshine without casting a shadow. They
can assert, too, that several of those witnesses suffered
the greatest calamities, and some even death, in defence
of that religion ; some before the attempts oTMohum-
mud at conquest, others after his commencing such at-
tempts, and others after his death. On mature consi-
deration of all those circumstances, the Compiler hopes
he may be allowed to remain still of opinion, that the
miraculous relations found in the divine writings would
be apt at best to carry little weight with them, when
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Editor, would equally avail the Hindoos. Have they
not accounts and records handed down to them, relating"
to the wonderful miracles stated to have been performed
by their saints, such as Ugustyu, Vushistu, and Gotum ;
and their gods incarnate, such as Ram, Krishnu, and
Nursingh ; in presence of their contemporary friends
and enemies, the wise and the ignorant, the select and
the multitude ?—Could not the Hindoos quote in sup-
port of their narrated miracles, authorities from the
histories of their most inveterate enemies the Jeins, who
join the Hindoos entirely in acknowledging the truth
and credibility of their miraculous accounts ? The only
difference which subsists between these two parties on
this subject, is, that the Hindoos consider the power of
performing miracles given to their gods and saints by
the Supreme Deity, and the Jeins declare that thev
performed all those astonishing works by Asoorce Shukti,
or by demoniac power. Moosulmans, on the other hand,
can produce records written and testified by contempora-
ries of Mohummud, both friends and enemies, who are
represented as eye-witnessess of the miracles ascribed to
him ; such as his dividing the moon into two parts, and
walking in sunshine without casting a shadow. They
can assert, too, that several of those witnesses suffered
the greatest calamities, and some even death, in defence
of that religion ; some before the attempts oTMohum-
mud at conquest, others after his commencing such at-
tempts, and others after his death. On mature consi-
deration of all those circumstances, the Compiler hopes
he may be allowed to remain still of opinion, that the
miraculous relations found in the divine writings would
be apt at best to carry little weight with them, when