everything he found blamable in the people;
he spared not their dear idols and beloved gods and the dreaded genii,
nor accommodated his preaching and reform to indulge them in their evil
practices; nor did he adopt any of the vices current among the people
into his system.

Mohammad certainly did lay stress on the propensities of the mind and
made the actions of the heart answerable to God, and preferred inward
holiness to outside form.

53. "The heart is prone to evils."--Sura XII.

38. "The hearing and the sight and the heart, each of these shall
be inquired of."--Sura XVI.

225. "God will not punish you for a mistake in your oaths; but He
will punish you for that which your hearts have assented to. God is
gracious, merciful."

284. "Whatever is in the Heavens and in the Earth is God's, and
whether ye disclose what is in your minds or conceal it, God will
reckon with you for it; and whom He pleaseth will He forgive, and
whom he pleaseth will He punish; for God is All-powerful."--Sura
II.

5. "And unless made with intent of heart, mistakes in this matter
shall be no crimes in you."--Sura XXXIII.

The teachings of the Koran make our natural inclination subject to
regulation. It lays stress upon the heart of men. Note the following
injunctions regarding internal purity:

120. "Abandon the outside iniquity and its inside."--Sura VI.

152. "Come not near the pollutions outside or inward."--_Ibid._

31. "Say: Truly my Lord hath forbidden filthy actions whether open
or secret, and iniquity and unjust violence."--Sura VIII.

Referring to Dr. Mosheim's cause of the spread of Islam, I will quote
Henry Hallam's opinion regarding the causes of the success of Islam.

Henry Hallam, after enumerating the three important causes of the
success of Islam, the first of which is "those just and elevated notions
of the divine nature and of moral duties, the gold-ore that pervades the
dross of the Koran, which were calculated to strike a serious and
reflecting people," and explaining the two others which are not against
us, he says:--

"It may be expected that I should add to this what is commonly
considered as a distinguishing mark of Mohammedanism,--its
indulgence to voluptuousness. But this appears to be greatly
exaggerated. Although the character of its founder may have been
tainted by sensuality as ferociousness