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true conception of God and of religion as the Muslims have
had of Allah and Islam. Whenever the people of Israel
prospered and was successful in its wars, then Jahwah was
acknowledged and worshipped; but in adverse circumstances
He was abandoned and the deity of a stronger and more
prosperous nation was adopted and its idol or image wor-
shipped. A careful study of the Hebrew Scripture will show
that the ordinary Jew considered his God sometimes stronger
or higher, and sometimes weaker, than those professed by
other nations. Their very easy and reiterated relapse into
idolatry is a proof that the Israelites had almost the same
notion about their El or Yahwah, as the Assyrians had of
their own Ashur, the Babylonians of Mardukh, and the
Phoenicians of their Ba'al. With the exception of the Pro-
phets and the Sophis, the Muslims of Torah, the Israel of the
Mosaic Law, never rose equal to the height of the sanctity of
their religion nor of the true conception of their Deity.
had of Allah and Islam. Whenever the people of Israel
prospered and was successful in its wars, then Jahwah was
acknowledged and worshipped; but in adverse circumstances
He was abandoned and the deity of a stronger and more
prosperous nation was adopted and its idol or image wor-
shipped. A careful study of the Hebrew Scripture will show
that the ordinary Jew considered his God sometimes stronger
or higher, and sometimes weaker, than those professed by
other nations. Their very easy and reiterated relapse into
idolatry is a proof that the Israelites had almost the same
notion about their El or Yahwah, as the Assyrians had of
their own Ashur, the Babylonians of Mardukh, and the
Phoenicians of their Ba'al. With the exception of the Pro-
phets and the Sophis, the Muslims of Torah, the Israel of the
Mosaic Law, never rose equal to the height of the sanctity of
their religion nor of the true conception of their Deity.