lf said, "O Israelites, worship God,
My Lord and yours!" He who associates with God any companion His equal
shall be excluded from Paradise, and have his place in Hell fire. (5.)

_Jesus Denies that He and His Mother were Gods_

At the last day God will say unto Isa, "O Isa, Son of Mary, didst Thou
say unto men, 'Take Me and My Mother for two Gods in addition to
Allah'?" And He shall answer, "Praise be unto Thee. Thou knowest all
things, and Thou knowest that I commanded men to worship Allah alone."

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CARDINAL NEWMAN

APOLOGIA PRO VITa SUA

That most remarkable ecclesiastic of the nineteenth century,
John Henry Newman, born in London on February 21, 1801, was of
Dutch extraction, but the name itself, at one time spelt
"Newmann," suggests Hebrew origin. His mother came of a
Huguenot family, long established in England as engravers and
paper manufacturers. His early education he obtained at a
school at Ealing, where he distinguished himself by diligence
and good conduct, as also by a certain aloofness and shyness.
The only important incident Newman connects with this period
is his "conversion," an incident more certain to him "than
that he had hands and feet." In 1820 he graduated at Trinity
College, Oxford. The various phases of his religious career
are amply set forth in his famous "Apologia pro Vita Sua"
("Apology for His Life"), afterwards called "A History of my
Religious Opinions." The work was called out by an attack, in
January, 1864, by Charles Kingsley, in a review of Froude's
"History of England." Kingsley wrote: "Truth, for its own
sake, had never been a virtue with the Roman clergy. Father
Newman informs us that it need not, and, on the whole, ought
not to be." Challenged to withdraw or substantiate this
charge, Kingsley did neither, whereupon Newman, after much
correspondence, wrote his "Apologia," which was published in
bi-monthly parts. Newman died on August 11, 1890.

_I.--HISTORY OF MY RELIGIOUS OPINIONS TO 1833_

I was brought up to delight in the Bible, but I had no formed religious
convictions till I was fifteen. Of course, I had a perfect knowledge of
my Catechism. But when I was fifteen I fell under the influence of a
definite creed, and believed that the inward conversion of which I was
conscious, and of which I am stil