THE FAITH

AS UNFOLDED BY MANY PROPHETS:

AN ESSAY.

BY

HARRIET MARTINEAU.

ISSUED BY

THE BRITISH AND FOREIGN UNITARIAN ASSOCIATION;

AND ADDRESSED TO

THE DISCIPLES OF MOHAMMed.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR THE UNITARIAN ASSOCIATION,

3, WALBROOK BUILDINGS, WALBROOK.

SOLD ALSO BY ROWLAND HUNTER, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH-YARD.

THE FAITH

AS UNFOLDED BY MANY PROPHETS.

I.-There is no God but God.

THERE was a friendship like that of brothers between Havilah the son of Aram, and a man of another nation, to whom Havilah gave the name of Eber. Yet Eber was a Christian, while Havilah was a follower of the Prophet. Havilah remembered how his father had early taught him to despise the Jews and Christians, and how he had hated them in his youth; yet he did not repent of his love for Eber.

Eber was not like many persons, whether Musselmen, Jews, or Christians, who having known no men but those of their own country and their own religion, despise or fear all other men. He had left his own country many years before, and had travelled from the sun-setting to the sun-rising; and as his heart was open to every man, there were some found to love him in every land: and among these was Havilah. When Havilah's child was sick, Eber had, by the blessing of God, restored him. When Havilah's wife had died, Eber wept with the mourner and comforted him. Havilah, in his turn, opened his house and his bosom to the Christian, and made him as his brother.

It happened, one day, that as the sun drew near its setting, Havilah and Eber went out beneath the shade of spreading trees, where the evening breeze might come to them to refresh them after the heats of the day. While the Christian watched

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