Claims and Teachings - Ahmad The Promised Messiah and Mahdi — Page 49
49 the missionary was necessary to make religion a living force in the world. * ^ * # #. * In bringing his learned and interesting lecture to a conclu- sion, the Professor drew back the attention of the audience to the above enumerated great questions and problems ; and assured that all had to be solved in the near future and that for their successful solution, he and those of his school believed in the probability of the coming of a World Teacher. The history of the world clearly showed that, whenever any great pro- blem confronted the people, a prophet, or a genius, or a statesman, or a soldier was born to solve the problem, and lead the people into the right path, The Professor therefore emphasised that the present was a time that required a Great Teacher, a Master Genius, who would create a flutter in our hearts, who would make people look-deep down into their hearts and who would lead us safely to righteousness, amidst all the troubles that surrounded us, The President, in her closing remarks, told her hearers that the coming World Teacher, if he came would not be a Bud ha, or a Zoroaster or a Christ, or a Mohammed but would combine in himself the compassion of Budha, and the moral power of Zoroaster, and the self-sacrifice of Christ, and the organizing power of Mohomed, In short he would have in her opinion, the head of a man and the heart of a woman. His policy and teachings would be nothing but love,, love, and love. She closed her speech-^- was. it a song ? by quoting from Bhagavad Gita the saying of Shri Krish-na " Whenever righteousness declines and vice appears to, prevail, I tarn born again, again and again. "