of God, convincing them of the falsehood of their religion, and inclining their hearts to renounce the delusion of the False Prophet, and embrace the Lord Jesus Christ. From what I have said to you, I think it is evident that the little horn of the he-goat, spoken of by Daniel, is the Mohammedan imposture. There is another prophecy in Revelation, relating to the same subject.-Samuel, you may turn to the ninth chapter of Revelation, and read from the first to the 19 verse.

Samuel. "And the fifth angel sounded and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth: and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit. And he opened 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. And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power. And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree; but only those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads.

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them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months: and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when he striketh a man. And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them. And the shapes of locusts were like unto horses prepared unto battle; and on their heads were as it were crowns like gold, and their faces were as the faces of men. And they had hair as the hair of women, and their teeth were as the teeth of lions. And they had breast-plates, as it were breast-plates of iron; and the sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots of many horses running to battle. And they had tails like unto scorpions, and there were stings in their tails and their power was to hurt men five months. And they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue he hath his name Apollyon. One wo is past; and behold, there come two woes more hereafter. And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God, saying to

the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates. And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men. And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand: and I heard the number of them. And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breast-plates of fire, and of jacinth and brimstone; and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire, and smoke, and brimstone. By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths. For their power is in their mouth, and in their tails: for their tails were like unto serpents, and had heads, and with them they do hurt."

Mother. The power of Mohammedanism was first maintained by the Saracens, whose conquests have been already described. But the whole Mohammedan empire was afterward overrun by the Turks, who professed the same religion. They now have possession of almost all

the countries where Islamism prevails. The prophecy of Daniel gives a general history of the Imposture, from its commencement to its overthrow, without making any distinction between the Saracens and the Turks. The Revelation of John gives an accurate description of both these powers.

Elizabeth. What is meant by the Star which John saw falling from heaven to the earth?

Mother. A Christian teacher, or a number of them, who have fallen away, and become the teachers of false doctrines and fatal errors, are represented in prophecy by a star falling from heaven. Mohammedanism may be considered as the fruit or product of Christian heresy. The Star had fallen, before the time of the False Prophet, in the shape of many gross and destructive heresies. In consequence of the general Apostasy from the truth, the Lord so ordered it, that the desolating delusion of Islamism should arise and overspread the fairest portions of the church. The grand heresies of the church seem to be represented as the means of introducing this master plague of error and superstition into the world. This view of the sub

ject will appear more evident, if, as has been supposed, Mohammed was assisted by a heretical monk in composing the Koran.

Samuel. Does the bottomless pit, here spoken of, mean hell?

Mother. No, my son; among the Pagans, at that day, there were certain caves which were held in great veneration. Priests lived at their mouths, who pretended to foretell things to come. Some of these caves sent forth a vapor or gas, which intoxicated those who breathed it. These caves were supposed, by extend to the sea, or to hell. that the prophet alluded to speaking of the bottomless pit.

the heathen, to It is supposed these caves, in The allusion is

the more striking, as it was in a cave that Mohammed planned and brought forth his horrible imposture. The opening of the bottomless pit, and the letting out of the smoke of hell, aptly represents his wicked and diabolical system of religion, by which so large a portion of Christendom was at length covered with moral darkness. The darkening of the sun represents the hiding or obscuring of the true religion. The darkening of the air represents the dominion of