A Present to Kings — Page 73
(73) to m. Promised Messiah was to make his appearance. Now then, when the appointed time has arrived and the signs have been fulfilled, and the need is crying and the claimant has appeared, who has also performed the work which was destined for the. Promised Messiah, what further doubt can then be left regarding his truth?. WHY THE REFORMER WAS CALLED MESSIAH?. The chief reason why the reformer of this age was given the title of Messiah was that he was destined to fight against. Church Christianity and to break its power, and as an actual fact the instruments which the reformer used towards this end were such as were altogether beyond the power of the Christians to face. For example. it was the practice of the. Christians to take in the Mussalmans by such arguments as the following:-" Mark, how our Messiah is still alive while your prophet is dead. " "Our Messiah used to bring the dead to life, your prophet did not bring any dead to life. " "Our Messiah is sitting in the sky, your prophet lies buried under the sand. " "Your prophet will not visit the earth again, but our Messiah will once more come to the earth to purge it of its corruptions, and it is he who will overthrow the perils of the latter days. " "Now, say truly, which of the two is superior?" The argument was such as could not possibly be escaped by the Mussalmans, and most of them fell a prey to the deception. What the reformer did was to establish by powerful arguments the falsity of all such notions. He thus saved the Mussalmans from the clutches of the Christians. . And the situation now is that wherever a Christian Missionary hears that an Ahmadi is present to meet him, he never ventures to enter upon a discussion and soon makes himself scarce from the place. And only a few years ago the Rev. Cr. Lefroy, the Lord Bishop of the Punjab, issued a circular forbidding the Missionaries to hold discussions with the Ahmadees, because such discussions always resulted in the discomfiture of the Christians. By proving that Jesus died a natural