From the pulpit of the Caaba he reiterated, "O my hearers, I am
only a man like yourselves." They remembered that he had once
said to one who approached him with timid steps: "Of what dost
thou stand in awe? I am no king. I am nothing but the son of an
Arab woman, who ate flesh dried in the sun."

He returned to Medina to die. In his farewell to his
congregation, he said: "Every thing happens according to the will
of God, and has its appointed time, which can neither be hastened
nor avoided. I return to him who sent me, and my last command to
you is, that ye love, honor, and uphold each other, that ye
exhort each other to faith and constancy in belief, and to the
performance of pious deeds. My life has been for your good, and
so will be my death."

In his dying agony, his head was reclined on the lap of Ayesha.
From time to time he had dipped his hand in a vase of water, and
moistened his face. At last he ceased, and, gazing steadfastly
upward, said, in broken accents: "O God--forgive my sins--be it
so. I come."

Shall we speak of this man with disrespect? His precepts are, at
this day, the religious guide of one- third of the human race.

DOCTRINES OF MOHAMMED. In Mohammed, who had already broken away
from the ancient idolatrous worship of his native country,
preparation had been made for the rejection of those tenets which
his Nestorian teachers had communicated to him, inconsistent with
reason and conscience. And, though, in the first pages of the
Koran, he declares his belief in what was delivered to Moses and