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sign of the finger on their death-bed without letting their friends know anything about it, and many are so afraid of the flames of hell that they are obliged to cry aloud, "There is no deity but Allah, Mohamet is the apostle of Allah!" Some angels, whose special service is to carry corpses from the graves of Giaours to the graves of Moslems, come by night and take the bodies of these converted believers to their respective places. We know .othing about such kind of conversions, but positively testify to the fact that over 100,000 Christians were willing to be butchered during these last two years because of their unwillingness to utter that single expression.
