same religion: but I now perceive by the exercise of my intellect, that the Mohammedan religion is false, and the Christian true: because there is no proof whatever of the inspiration of Mohammed." He proceeds to state that he considers Islam to be wanting in miracles and in other evidence; that there can be but one true religion in the world given by God, and that if he neglects that, he incurs the perils of the lost. "Therefore I am urged by the fear of future punishment to ask the sages of Islam, if their religion be really true, to prove it to me. And it is their bounden duty either to prove or to forsake it. With this view I have prepared a few questions for my own peace of mind, and entreat a fair and reasonable answer, such as shall aid me in reaching the truth. May the Almighty direct me to Himself, and let Him not be displeased with me!" We believe this to be the genuine effusion of an anxious, burdened spirit, and heartily join in its concluding prayer. The twenty - three questions embrace the grand points of controversy discussed in the Mîzân-ul-Haqq: and are short, but conclusive.

Such appearances are encouraging. We receive them as types of the intellectual inquiry and spiritual thought now at work both among Hindoos and Mohammedans. A few singular cases have risen to the surface and attracted our attention. How many similar instances may be occurring, deep and unknown, among the masses of the people, we have no means of knowing. It is undoubted, however, that more correct and extensive knowledge of Christianity is gradually permeating all classes of our fellow-subjects, and that a slow, but sure, advance towards enlightenment is in progress. It is true that, in the view of human agency, there are more hopeful tokens among the Hindoos than amongst the Mohammedans; but that should not discourage us from our controversy with the latter, which indeed must exercise a powerful, though indirect, influence upon the Hindoos also. This important fact has been established by the controversy at Dehli. The Hindoo, sickened by idolatry, turns to the other two religions which surround him, and inquires into their respective claims; and we must be ready at hand to meet him with the proofs of our most Holy faith. It is interesting to