| Theology - 1850 - 550 pages
...place. The sword is the key VOL. XLIX. 4TH S. VOL. XIV. NO. II. 17 of heaven and hell. A drop of blood shed in the cause of God, a night spent in arms, is...more avail than two months of fasting and prayer." " The march is hot," said he, when his soldiers faltered in the desert, " but hell is hotter." * "... | |
| Liberalism (Religion) - 1850 - 546 pages
...convenient place. The sword is the key 190 Mahomet and Boniface. [Sept of heaven and hell. A drop of blood shed in the cause of God, a night spent in arms, is...more avail than two months of fasting and prayer." " The march is hot," said he, when his soldiers faltered in the desert, " but hell is hotter." * "... | |
| Mystery - 1850 - 464 pages
...valiant martyrs of the faith. The sword (says Mahomet) is the key of heaven and hell; a drop of blood shed in the cause of God, a night spent in arms, is...of more avail than two months of fasting and prayer ; whosoever falls in battle his sins are forgiven ; at the day of judgment his wounds shall be resplendent... | |
| George Griffin - Bible - 1850 - 372 pages
...champion of the faith. " The sword," says Mohammed, " is the key of heaven and of hell ; a drop of blood shed in the cause of God, a night spent in arms, is of more avail than two months' fasting or prayer ; whosoever falls in battle, his sins are forgiven ; at the day of judgment, his... | |
| George Griffin - Apologetics - 1850 - 370 pages
...champion of the faith. " The sword," says Mohammed, " is the key of heaven and of hell; a drop of blood shed in the cause of God, a night spent in arms, is of more avail than two months' fasting or prayer; whosoever falls in battle, his sins are forgiven; at the day of judgment, his wounds... | |
| Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Asia - 1850 - 246 pages
...Mahomet, in the Koran, ^ is v the key of heaven and hell. A drop of blood spent in \ the cause of God. or a night spent in arms, is of more ^ avail than two months passed in fasting and prayer. Whoever falls in battle, his sins are forgiven : at the day of judgment... | |
| John Warner Barber - Church history - 1851 - 484 pages
...the type of Paradise. " The sword," says Mahomet, " is the key of heaven and hell; a drop of blood shed in the cause of God, a night spent in arms, is...two months of fasting and prayer; whoever falls in battle, his sins are forgiven; at the day of judgment his wounds shall be resplendent as vermilion,... | |
| John Warner Barber - Church history - 1851 - 502 pages
...the type of Paradise. " The sword," says Mahomet, " is the key of heaven and hell ; a drop of blood shed in the cause of God, a night spent in arms, is...two months of fasting and prayer ; whoever falls in battle, his sins are forgiven ; at the day of judgment his wounds shall be resplendent as vermilion,... | |
| Thomas Peter Akers - Greensburg (Ky.) - 1851 - 538 pages
...the faith." Mohammed himself says : — " The sword is the key of heaven and hell. A drop of blood shed in the cause of God, a night spent in arms, is...more avail than- two months of fasting and prayer ; whosoever falls in battle, his sins are forgiven ; at the day of judgment his wounds shall be resplendent... | |
| Frederick Walpole - Assassins (Ismailites) - 1851 - 426 pages
...heaven and of hell. " Paradise is beneath the shadow of swords," cried the prophet. " A drop of blood shed in the cause of God, a night spent in arms, is of more avail than two months of fasting and of prayer," says the Koran. What precepts for conquest — what maxims to make warriors ! It was one... | |
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