Barahin-e-Ahmadiyya Part V — Page 54
NU S R AT U L- H AQ Q — HE L P OF G OD 54 drunkenness, self-indulgence, and other sins. Many among the clergy, who exceed all others in stressing the blood of Messiah, are given to alcoholism which is the mother of all evils, with the result that such shameful and outrageous stories regarding them are frequently pub- lished in the newspapers that the less said about them, the better. For example, just today I read in a newspaper that a pastor who committed fornication with girls was arrested in England and is being sent back [to India]. That pastor’s name is Dr. Sandilands and he was the Principal at a missionary orphanage in Bhandara, Nagpur. On the night of 24th August, he was found with a girl in his room. Failing to justify his action, he resigned and left [the country]. It was later discovered that he had committed fornication with 17 girls. Further police inves- tigation revealed that he was also guilty of performing illegal surgeries; namely, abortions. The warrants for his arrest were issued, he was taken into custody in England, and upon his arrival in India his trial will be held at the Bombay High Court. See the Pioneer [ Mail ] and Akhb a r-e- ‘ A m of 8th February 1905, first column; and 9th February 1905, page 6, column 2. Now it is obvious that if this is the state of the so-called great ‘Holy Fathers’ who are in the first [and foremost] position to benefit from the blood of Christ, then what good would the other poor folks derive from this prescription [of salvation]? So remember well that this is certainly not the way to attain true purity. The time is approaching— nay rather, it is near at hand—when people will awaken themselves to the error of this path. The true path is only the one which I have already stated. Every single person who came to God Almighty entered through this very door. Yes, this door is very narrow and those who enter through it are very few in number, for death is its threshold and, having seen God, remaining steadfast in His path with all their power and all their being, is its frame. So very few indeed are those who wish to enter through this door. Alas, that in our country the notion of the blood of Christ has led the Christians astray from this door, while the A ryas have been deprived of this door on account of their belief in rein- carnation and their denial of the acceptance of repentance; for, in their