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people. Further, he tells us that the best way to find out the
impostor's perfidy was to anticipate the fulfillment of his pre-
dictions, and then to put him to death when his fraud was
divulged. But, as is well known, the ignorant cannot well
distinguish between the genuine prophet and the imposter,
just as much as they to-day are unable to definitely discover
which of the two, a Roman Catholic priest or a Calvinist
minister, is a genuine follower of Jesus Christ! A false pro-
phet would also foretell events, work wonders, and do other
religious things similar - at least in appearance - to those
performed by a true one. The competition between the Prophet Moses
and the magicians of Egypt is an apt illustration
of this statement. Thus it is Jeremiah who gives us the best
way of testing the veracity, the genuineness, of a prophet, and
that way is the sign of Islam. Please read the whole chapter
xxviii. of Jeremiah, and then ponder and reflect on the ninth
impostor's perfidy was to anticipate the fulfillment of his pre-
dictions, and then to put him to death when his fraud was
divulged. But, as is well known, the ignorant cannot well
distinguish between the genuine prophet and the imposter,
just as much as they to-day are unable to definitely discover
which of the two, a Roman Catholic priest or a Calvinist
minister, is a genuine follower of Jesus Christ! A false pro-
phet would also foretell events, work wonders, and do other
religious things similar - at least in appearance - to those
performed by a true one. The competition between the Prophet Moses
and the magicians of Egypt is an apt illustration
of this statement. Thus it is Jeremiah who gives us the best
way of testing the veracity, the genuineness, of a prophet, and
that way is the sign of Islam. Please read the whole chapter
xxviii. of Jeremiah, and then ponder and reflect on the ninth