Claims and Teachings - Ahmad The Promised Messiah and Mahdi — Page 421
421 holy Guru? , I; wait -to -see' haw many of you:. will respond to the invitation to accep_t the truth. , (Vol. XVII J B. B. 1919. ) What will be the outcome of this? (By Molvie. Sher Ali Saheb B, A. ) That the present age has witnessed and is. still witnessing extraordinary occurrences is too apparent a fact to escape the : notice pfran. y observer. Great. things. are happening on all sides. , Etnpire;S ; are vanishing,;: thrones are crashing and; nations are go- ring to pieces. The -world has bpen. laid waste with wars, earth- - D' ' - ' C > --> -. . -. i. . ;. . . . . . ~ :. i : ' , '. . . . . . i' : : '. quakes, pestilences, famines, massacres, and other, disasters too J. 1 ' * ' t -*. . -. . . , i * * a. ,t -. . '. '. ' ' '. . . v numerous to cpunt. . The. foundations of society are tumbling r -into the dust an4. cbaos an,d; confusion reign everywhere. The whole world is in the melting-pot. ^ ,. Now the question, naturally ar/ises, what will be the outcome of this ? , The Christian editor - of the Harvest Field truly remarked in the February issue, of. that (periodical that the extraordinary. things which were happening -;pn the face of the earth were. not without a purpose and that all , thoughtful men bad come tq realise that God had spme ; great pur-. Fposfl. . to fulfil. While considering. what that purpose can be, we ;. must remember that all these occurrences did not come without a warning. Before there was any sign of these occurrences, Go. d, in accordance with His old unchangeable law and in fulfilment of the prophecies announced by all the great prophets of the world, sent His Messenger, Ahrnad, who with a clarion note,. forewarn-ed the whole mankind, of the disasters that were in store , fqr the : presen. t generation. Our readers know well some of these prophecies a. nd tney also know how clearly they have been ful- filled. So we, need not repeat them here. In. the very first book of his, the Barahin-i-Ahmadiyya,. published about 40 years ago, he published ; )&he fpllpwing relevation : - ^