Fulfilment of a Grand Prophecy - Hazrat Ahmad’s Challenge to John Alexander Dowie — Page 52
54. Fulfillment of a Grand Prophecy. BALTIMORE AMERICAT NTHURSDAY JUNE 25 1903. . NIG them were kneeeling tog well to knees in the dust off " nstit. have resulted in failure. r this. must ,. LA MARQUISE them were kneeeling together on their taknees in the dust of the earth car. Nanishing such a tempting target for a forked bolt of lightning!. DOWIE VERSUS GHULAM, and There is trouble in faqulrdom. Comes. Lally now the pot and challenges. the kettle hich mill- to a contest in blackness, In other words,. The comes Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, of Quid-so lan, Punjab, India, defying the noto-law rious Alexander Dowle, of Chicago, tor of a test of genuineness of the respective use id to afflati that move the two. Ghulam eat grows orientally picturesque in wording prohis defl, and says: om have ther 14 they. K " neq wly d to had don the it ver: ids. the and be and n the cars, such. LE. You. No. Mirza, you ask too much. have placed Mr, Dowle in a position that would result undoubtedly in the death of both of you, or in your both being ignored by the Almighty, whom you presumptuously and ignorantly blaspheme. No doubt the latter course would be adopted, as there are too many sane, earnest people in the world for the. Director of the Universe to waste any time on either you or Dowle. . Scat, Ghulam!. DIAZ'S RULE. IN MCXIÇO. . President Diaz, of Mexico, has been president about a quarter of a century, and is to be renominated, and of course re-elected. It is easy to recall the. CODpresidency, Revolution had followed dition of Mexico when Diaz took the revolution with such rapidity that It was not always easy to say what government was supposed to hold the offices. . When Diaz was inaugurated half a dozen revolutions were planned, and at least one was attempted; but It was so ruthlessly suppressed that that form of political activity became unpopular. . The condition of the country was deplorable. People lived in terror of their possessions and lives, and Industrial activity of any sort was out of the questlon. "Come thou, O self-styled prophet; ven let us kneel on our knees in the dust tlon of the earth, you and I together, and pently tition the Almighty that of us two whoever is the liar shall perish first. “. It is up to Dowle. The puissant Ohuly 1 he claims to be the promised Messiah; that he fulls exactly the scriptural requirearce ments as to date, pedigree, etc. , and he. I to also clawns to have one hundred thou-ot be ure sand followers "rapidly growing. " Mirza fthe. Ghulanı Ahmad claimɛ also that he is entrusted with the reformation of the con wenkd. Tough Job, Mirz, tough job:. The world has a terrific start of you. . Delaware has just had a mob, New. The York's prisons are filling up with mil- ort to. For Honaires, and the postal scandal isn't pubhalf through. Besides, there's Bervlantroand Russia and Turkey and the rest of their 1 those outbroken sinners in your nearer pid. vicinity. () Mirza, aren't you. “up will against it good"? And, even when you should have pacifled the state of Adence, any. dleks, set the New York money aristoopie, ich crats straight and civilized the Euro- ecked Diaz soon showed the people that he self pean provinces, would not there be still hight was-master, and that the progress of suc- Kentucky and St. Louis, to say nothing the state was his alm. He welcomed nes. of Chicago's automobile burglars? foreigners and capital and offered 90- And then think what a task you are special inducements to settlers. “All eas-setting for the avenging angel in ask-t-car, useful enterprises were alded so far as ern-ing a quick decision as to which-Mirza how were opened and railroads butie, which now the republic eotdald them. Mines. Its Ghulam Ahmad or Alexander. Dowle the bout city, r too have ad. L + is THE liar! And that when the two aaya had to the development of contiguous