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  asylums and converts generally, and to the effect which appeals thus sounding
  from among themselves, and addressing their feelings and reason with native
  home-drawn arguments, will have throughout the country.
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  But of all human means we trust most
  to those exhibitions of earnestness and anxiety, which Christian love is now
  prompting its professors to put into active motion. Yes ; it is a matter of
  congratulation that the attitude which Europe and America are now assuming, is
  just that which is likely to, strike conviction into the impassive heart of
  the Mohammedan. When he sees Christians so vitally alive to the infinite
  blessings their religion is calculated to impart, so tenderly concerned for
  the perishing condition of their brethren, and so filled with zeal to make
  them sharers of their own blessings, as cheerfully to undergo loss and suffer
  privation; this is a practical argument, the most likely of any to
  convince him of the reality and Divine nature of the Gospel. God be praised
  that Christianity is beginning gradually to assume her rightful position; and
  no sooner shall she have fully done so, than a light must break forth
  establishing before the world her truth and the unspeakable difference between
  it and every false religion.
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  In conclusion, we would earnestly press the necessity which lies upon all of
  removing, as far as their ability extends, the ignorance of the Mohammedans;
  and the responsibility those are under who possess the requisite
  qualifications, of affording them access to the numerous spheres of learning,
  a knowledge of which is presupposed in most of our religious discussions. Let
  us attend to Dr. Lee:
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   "In ancient History and Scripture, the Persians are necessarily very
    ignorant,1 the best means they have of obtaining either being the
    fragments
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