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ye love them , and they do not love you : ye believe in the Scriptures , and when they meet you , they say , * We believe ; ' but when they assemble privately together , they are full of wrath against you */ ' If I had loved a Christian of whom these things were to be believed , I had disobeyed the Prophet ; but Mohammed himself would have loved one whose heart is open as the heart of Eber . 'Is it not elsewhere told in the Book , Havilah , who are the infidels whose friendship is dangerous ? Is it not those " Who make a laughing-stock and a jest of your religiont ; " who " when ye call to prayer , make a laughing-stock and a jest of it , because they are a people who do not understand ? " I have never thus jested , nor sought to turn Havilah from his faith .
4 Never , said Havilah . Yet is Eber among those who do not understand : else , as surely as the thirsty fields drink in the rain , would the heart of Eber receive gladly the wisdom of the Prophet . c So say the Christians of those who are called the Faithful , replied Eber . Why should we not both be of those who understand ? The same God , the One , who spread out the firmament and the sea and the fruitful fields , who bade the lion roar in the desert , and the elephant hide himself in the forests , and the flocks gather round the dwellings of men , hath given to each of us , not only the heart to love , but the mind to understand . Let us therefore try to understand , and to learn wisdom , each of the other/—p . 1—3 .
To circulate these tracts among the persons to whom they are severally addressed is the business of the Unitarian Association ; and never have its funds been more usefully employed . Our object is to make them known and read at home . They are not more valuable for conversion than for instruction . It can be scarcely possible for any one to read them without a more vivid perception of the nature , design , truth , loveliness , and power of Christianity . While to others each of them has its distinct mission , it is for ourselves to enjoy their combined influence . The work of each is enhanced by the unity which pervades them all . The writer is reaping laurels in a very different , and to common observers a more conspicuous field , but these are unwithering ones , and of a nobler kind ; though they grow , indeed , upon the same stem . For with Miss Martineau the loftiest theological truths and the homeliest practical utility are derived from the same principles . She has won a wreath for her brows from that tree whose roots are fed by the river of immortal life , and whose leaves are for the healing of the nations .
? Koran , chap . 3 . f Ibid . chap . 5 .
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434 Miss Martineau V Prize Essays .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1832, page 484, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1816/page/52/
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