“Repent, for the kingdom of Heaven is at hand.  Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink, nor yet for your body what ye shall put on.  Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment, for your Heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.  But seek ye first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you.”

Now, let every man who has not lost common sense, examine if this Jesus ever was a king, or if His disciples had abundance of all things.  This Jesus promised to deliver the world from sin.  Is there any prophecy which is more false?  Is not our age a striking proof of it?  It is said that Jesus came to save His people.  In what way did He save it?  It is the greatest number which rules any party.  For example, one dozen or two of Spaniards or Frenchmen do not constitute the French or Spanish people; and if an army of a hundred and twenty thousand men were taken prisoners of war by an army of enemies which was stronger, and if the chief of this army should redeem only a few men, as ten or twelve soldiers or officers, by paying their ransom, it could not be claimed that he had delivered or redeemed his army.  Then, who is this God who has been sacrificed, who died to save the world, and leaves so many nations damned?  What a pity! and what horror!

Jesus Christ says that we have but to ask and we shall receive, and to seek and we shall find.  He assures us that all we ask of God in His name shall be granted, and that if we have faith as a grain of mustard-seed, we could by one word remove mountains.  If this promise is true, nothing appears impossible to our Christ-worshipers who have faith in Jesus.  However, the contrary happens.  If Mohammed had made the promises to his votaries that Christ made to His, without success, what would not be said about it.  They would cry out, “Ah, the cheat! ah, the impostor!” These Christ-worshipers are in the same condition:  they have been blind, and have not even yet recovered from their blindness; on the contrary, they are so ingenious in deceiving themselves, that they pretend that these promises have been fulfilled from the beginning of Christianity; that at that time it was necessary to have miracles, in order to convince the incredulous of the truth of religion; but that this religion being sufficiently established, the miracles were no longer necessary.  Where, then, is their proof of all this?

Besides, He who made these promises did not limit them to a certain time, or to certain places, or to certain persons; but He made them generally to everybody.  The faith of those who believe, says He, shall be followed by these miracles; “They shall cast out devils in My name, they shall speak in divers tongues, they shall handle serpents,” etc.

In regard to the removal of mountains, He positively says that “whoever shall say to a mountain:  ’Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea;’ it shall be done;” provided that he does not doubt in his heart, but believes all he commands will be done.  Are not all these promises given in a general way, without restriction as to time, place, or persons?