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355 community in India so poor on the whole as they are. But every one of them, at the sacrifice of his personal requirements contributes what appears to others to be a heavy proportion of his income for the religious, moral, and intellectual reformation of the world. The Ahmadi women are not behind Ahmadi men in this respect. They have proved by their example that they live not for ornaments and dress but for God. Last year I made an appeal for the construction of a mosque in Germany and called upon the women of the commu- nity alone to contribute towards the fund. Thereupon hundreds of them sold their jewellery ornaments and their best dresses to provide their quota of contributions to the fund, which swelled to more than twice the amount they had been asked to collect. In short, so deep and so marked is the effect of the teachings of the Movement on every member of the community that all observers are struck by it. This is admitted even by the bitterest enemies of the Move- ment, but they try to draw a veil over it, ascribing it to ostentation and hypocrisy. How blessed is this hypoc- risy which has healed the sick and quickened the dead. Would that such hypocrisy were to prevail everywhere in the world! I now close this paper with a word. 'Hear all men and women! We have been created by God so that we may absorb His attributes in our own persons and become manifestations of His glory. So long as we do not attain this object we cannot claim to have achieved success. Of what value is our material