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68 tions of the earth, to mountains and rivers, to friends and ene- mies, to governments and their subjects, to the whole universe, to life and to death, to the fecundity of some and to the sterility of others, to spread of diseases and to miracles and cures. For in- stance, he foretold the Great War, the sufferings of the Czar, the defeat of the Turks, the outbreak of influenza, the frequency of earthquakes and several other events which have all been ful- filled in due course. In a sense this very conference is a fulfil- ment of one of his prophecies. In 1892 he published a book called the Ezala-i-Auham, wherein he related one of his visions in which he saw that he was standing on a platform in London and was delivering an address and that he afterwards caught some birds. He interpreted it to mean that his doctrines would be preached in London and that through him people would accept Islam. In short, he showed all kinds of signs, which cannot be detailed here. Suffice it to say that in order to prove the existence of a Living God and to convince reason and sense of His existence, he manifested every attribute of God by signs and miracles, and even his enemies bear testimony to these signs and they have been published in several books. These signs have given to hundreds of thousands such faith as to enable them to see God for themselves as righteous people used to see Him in days of old, and to hear His voice as those in ages past used to hear it. The writer of this paper has also, through the pure Grace of God, on several occasions heard the sweet words of God, and ex- perienced the manifestation of His attributes in himself or through himself in others, and this is the faith and the certainty and the realisation which, as I have explained in the beginning, it is the function of a prophet to create, and without which religion is a mere name which has no meaning or value. Before concluding this paper I desire to observe that as some people are never satisfied with mere hearsay, however con- clusive may be the evidence in support of it, God has provided