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doctrine, whether it be of God.' 'Sell that ye have, and give alms; provide yourselves bags which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that faileth not, where no thief approacheth, neither moth corrupteth.' 'There is no man that hath left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, |or wife, or children, or lands, for my sake, and the Gospel's, but he shall receive a hundred fold now in this time, and in the world to come eternal life.'
It is true, said Havilah, that every prophet is made wise with the wisdom of prophets who have gone before; but that is a testimony that such a one is true, rather than that he is false. The hues of the clouds could never form a rainbow, if the many rays came not from one orb of light.
True, replied Eber; yet each must have a beauty of its own, while it enhances the rest. Christ testified to Moses, while he taught many things which it had not entered into the heart of Moses to conceive. Mohammed testified to Christ; but I cannot find that he taught any new truth; for what new things he taught, I believe not to be true.
Then, replied Halivah, the light which the Faithful declare to flow from the great source,
