The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1884-05-13 00:00:00

THE SOUDAN.

LETTER FROM THE III&HDI.

The if, New Dein, ourrespondent node the
following copy of a letter from tin Mabdi addressed
to the mufti of &goblin and his followers :
"lo the nuns of God, the olensent and merciful,
glory and honour, health and pr.yer to our Lord
Mohamed and hi. followers. To our friend in God
Mufti Kalif& .tilobaund El Hifi, son .4 Anon Ear,
sod to all bit sub,rdinotse, whom God ha. inspired
for the revisal of hie reign and the or rpagation irf his
choeen religion, health on the pert of the servant of
God, Mohamed El M.hdt. sou of Abdallah. Do not
forgot, all of you, to whom I adders. thie epistle, that
power and etrength me in the hand. of Allah, from
whom we all pruned, and to whom all things mud
be rendered. Ho is the Lord of sag Earth.
He diatolbutra kingdoms as is pleasing to His oranipo-
tone and Lass them sway Is like manner. Ho
out 1,06 sight of the, oh you to whom God hes
given right. Shake off the torpor in wbialt you Ins.
Do not allow yourselves to be deeded by the vain
w rid which *urines you. Know that you are sur-
rounded, all of you, by & deceitful mirage Do not
forgot the kingdom. and empires which hare preceded
you, the nowise of which hay. resounded through the
ages in the lour oormire of the with. Moot that of
rsir greatness but a few ruins roman to recall
to no that. vanity. hisditets upon all those
thing., and put yourselves on God against the
anger of the dovereign lints. of all thistle
created. In order to ride you in ass Dew
which God has traced of you, I have slresdy
gated to you the Emir Othman &boo Heir Osman
Dtgoa), to whom you mast rally, I, numeral& this
sacred fire of the reign id God upon tooth, and to hold
high the prestige of Limn, wilt.* God had chosen for
His fasonrit• rsligioe. With ibM objsct I conjure you
to convert yourself first to God, not to come with
holy odopuocttoo to maks 'locum subusisaloo to the
sborgsdnoutioued Notir. Altos which fell without
mercy upon the Impious, whom GI rd in hie senor will
efface from the earth. Prepare Youreelres for war, sad
do not bo rebuffod by difilouldse. Do not let valleys,
&dams, and mountains stop you in the holy path
white I gram for you—this is the only mates of
attaining the glory which the Saints of God enjoy in
Heaves. If God, la His pity, inspires the impious to
tare to Him, and to follow you, know that God done
not wish their lass, and mate them with open alma;
but do not forget to take, of all their erne
se well as of the tresanne they poneses. As for those
who remain unmoved at the greet things which God
I. about to perform, and know that as to those Gail
an. written upon thoir foreheads that they are the
prey of steroid sufferings, the flames of which are
never extinguished. Last of all, know that all those
who die will be propagating the holy rslirion of God,
will he plated amongst the number of His saints, end
will injoy all the prJoiless which God his Ma& In
His Holy work. Toat in all I bars to say to you.
Woe unto you if you du not b 'az my voice, and woe
t all those whom a in his wavy has readoired deaf
to the word coining from oo High.—Hosith."