Fulfilment of a Grand Prophecy - Hazrat Ahmad’s Challenge to John Alexander Dowie — Page 86
90. TRUTH SEEKER. . FOUNDED BY D. M. BENNETT. aled by The Truth Beeker Company,. JDONALD. Editor and Proprietor. SILDUNN. Editorial Contributor ty-two Venry Stroot, New York, N. Y. . Pont Office Box 1010. . DAY. Fulfillment of a Grand Prophecy. The Truth Sooker. . June 18, 1907. discovered but what we do not know, and have Messiah to defy the Restored Elijah to an endurnot found; that the actual is not the known but ance test, because the challenger was by fifteen the unknown. We cannot pay tribute to any such years the older man of the two, and probabilities, philosophical nonsense, We all have the convic-in a land of plagues and fanatics, were against tion of the little boy who did not like to be left alone when he was put to bed. He begged his notlier to leave the light in the room, The mother sald to him: "You are not alone. God is with you. ”. But the little boy was not reashim as a survivor; but he won out. . The argument he makes for the fulfilment of his prophecy that God would effect the decease of. Dowie in cogent enough to convince the followen, of the Promised Mesalah, although in our view. JUNE 15, 1907. sured, and once more repeated his request, say-he weakens his case by stating that Dowie "drink. Eription Mater. . Perlition in eliance ription two you in UYANCO. BubscrlborE ription and vno new subscriber, la resultinsce elga counti les except Mexico, 50 9 per annum extrn. $3. 00 5. 00 6. 00 log: "Mamina, God may be here, but I cannot see him, but I can see the light. ”. There you have it. We all believe in what we can see, in spite of philosophy, religion and every6. 00 thing else. . L. K. W. . Don recofred for any length of Uuse under 'ns at the rate of 26 ceuli per month. Сдл segun at any mo. Shugie coples, 7 cents, nt the Post Pl, Now York, N. Y. , a bacond malter. dd be wat by. AFT ON NEM. NINERA DE MONEY ODDAR, PIRITAL. VOR THE OF ADUSTINED LETTER. 1200, shrek « <^atlə on clilca »ther Han Krk York to be p for culluellen, und mir patrona, sre saked bot le 14 nts that expele. Addra CODAnd make dur checks, posto prihoda boste de le T TEGA PEEKER COMPANT. B. B. New Jatk, 402 Veer Ki. L NOTICE We shall be obliged to our they will end us the nanie and address of linker who is not a regular subscriber. . From thoughts. not o max's the * are not valuable. put into the Bible. ith cana man proses God cannot stand still. the talk out love ought to be sterilod of today is ashamed of the God of ld like to have a person tell me why. God. is little tap for the world so long as patishes: good to how yor *ts as you are to yourself, ianity no ger stands in the way of enjoying 'mselves. an Science <remis to be the science of omething reat prot nothing. of life is not to get to but to learn how to live. e of the woman who condemns in her what she forgives in men. seems to no question but what a'man golf on 'lay nud go to benven. Christian church has no other mlsalon foot the le and keep them fooled. arder to ised to c ¡C99. men and women lo hell. Only a few engage in the e getting large and free enough to say apparent is all of life to live, and all to die. ' reatest victory of the nineteenth century ning the it to speak the truth with of the rcli. . Anry Baker Glad Iddy does not believe ospel of not a place to lay your head. its the best that earth affords. out on my lawn and see a dozen trees the miracle-blossoms which in time will minele-fruit, all showing that. Nature is the universal mystery. . Scotch highballs" and "planned a band of seven 'vestal virgins' to attend him. " For if the found er of Zion Indulgel and endowed himself as alleg cil, there might be more of paresis than of proxi dence in his taking off. . The war of the prophets dates from the re. The War of the Prophets. mote past and will beyond doubt go on as long a. Now that Dowie is dead and burled, his chima there are two of them in the field. In the time repudlated, and wone so hard up for an objurga-treated of by the Bible writers, miracle competi tion as to swear by his bened as that of a prophet, tions were held. Aaron, the successor of Moses. the squabbling over his property, his reputation, entered such a contest, arranged by Pharaoh. Hr and his meth-caten mantle seems indecent even cast down his rod before the monarch, and it be. to those who have always regarded him as ou caine à serpent. Then Pharaoh also called the impostor. The following occurred in the news- magicians of Egypt, who duplicated the trick. paper dispatchies last week: their rods, thrown down, turning likewise into serpents; but Aaron got the decision because hii rod swallowed up their rods. After that test. Aaron was th: Mirza for the children of Israel's oney. Another competition among the proph ets was engaged in by Dowie's predecessor, Eli jah. It was a praying match, Elijah being the challenger. 11e kept the priests of Baal praying ineffectively to their deity, from sun to sun, he would start the Gre in an altar they had pre plared, and meanwhile Elijah stood about jibày them with such remarks as "Cry aloud, for be & a god, either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or k is on a journey or peradventure he sleepeth and must be waked. " fle then, after performing cer"Chlen, June 2-Arrumpaled by a band which cost $30 no hour, Wilbur tifen Vollva, netically de pused in Zon by the Federal Court, today beld revolutionary ineling bin lett. Just ontslide the city, the courta tashig ejulned froin holding a meeting in. Zion Clly,. It was export that the font meeting would be reller than orduurity, but Chidulone Dowle, te 'unkissed any of B former prophet, muddenly look the tela bla own hours and put an anxpected erleep in the Valla plus. "The Voll-a faetlou ban buen ladylg]ne in many bit. ler perunice regarding Mrs. Dowie, widow of the propået ned mother of Hinintare, Tile he become benroule, uid it was bed en kocka worn to bn in cilet entert:dement al the Vollva meetIng loy ladalong served outlon upon Vallva and ale dels that If any more niṭacke, ojmy or in 50 crat, were agile upon, khu ar his mother tu caso would he car tule the county. Velva, who has come to luva o propret for the Federal Court, begile the warung, anh mooling toslay, while well allended, was usually tanio, ben HB Are but are drawn. . Many rulous persons from Chicago µg the towns round Zie allende (be mußog, expecting somethẳng' eruroflenal, but were applied. " the elfy proper, whees fleural Lewis, under the wing of the Federal Court, I holding furth alba legl thonte essor of Trade, the day wally opent eh Sanary rel!:30ps Pervlees in the invernacle. . Vuilva Mire Tens to take followers and balld up a www. zh pferably in runo Bouthern slut, but i beed on the threat, and followers nro repldly desertug at rallylog In the lowli plnaduurd. The coarla ng asabeling the neurale putting Zion ou a husless basis, and the removal of Voltva. It. In expected the prople will soll down not regala their. Daber Casierlly,”. Old Nowie himself was too much of an egotist to spend any thought on the crows that would caw fiver is refuse when he was end. tha: tain incantatious, fit the fire in bis own altar al though it had been previously drenched with four barrels of water: and nothing in the narrative barrels, instead of water, contained kerosene, and supports the criticism of Mark Twain that the that Elijah touchel a match to the pile. . There is biblical precedent, therefore, for the. Mirza's "defi" in Dowie; there is also precedent in experience for the going to pieces of men øl. Dowle's excessive activity and strenuous S filled, of the downfall of a modern prophet, is nal. One who makes prediction and lives to see it fulwarranted thereby in setting himself up as anoth tr. '. Liberty In Bad Company. . On the dedication of a Roman Catholic cathe. It is diverting to turn from the scene above described to n publication Issued by a rival propliet on the other aide of the globe, namely, Mirza. Ghulam Aland, who is drawing a bunch of Moral hammedans after him at Qadian, Gurdaspur, Ind. The publication is a pamphlet entitled "DIvine Judgment in Powie's Death; or, The Fulfilment of a Grand Prophecy. ". In, St. Paul, M. , President Roosevelt wrote to Archbishop Ireland (cardinal not yet but soon if the President's influence prevails) a follows: "In this fortunate country of ours. Iberly and ligton ara nateral lleo, and go forward hand in bint congratulate all those galliered to lure the aging of the corner stone of the now Cathedral of BL P…! congratulate those who are to worship in 14, and 1 [congratulate especially you poreonnity. ". Assunding that Mr. Roosevelt has duly comid. . We have previously alluded to the prophecy named in the above title. The late Dowie looked upon Mohammed as the prince of impostora; he not only prophesied that Mohammedanism would be destinyed by Zim, but from day to day disappear. This coming to the knowledge of the praye G for the line when the crescent shouldered his thesis that "liberty and religion are malural allles,” he ought to be able to point out with. Indian Messiah, he spread broadcast a challenge what particular liberty the. Roman Cathol to Ellah II. to meet him and "pray to God that church is slied. Surely it is not religious lib of us two whoever is the liar may perish first. ” erty, for that has been anathematized by the. The Qadian man predicted that if Dowie ac- Popes, whose decrees are infallible when they dral cepted the challenge "he shall leave the world with the question. It is not popular liberty, or before my eyes with great sorrow and torment. " the liberty of self-government, for the pope says: has been a tendency to ignore the real-If Dowie declined, the Mirza said, the end would "The bie duty of the multitude is to allow themwhat we see, and to place greater im-only be deferred; death awaited him Just the selves to be led, and, like a docile flock, to follow upon the unseen. . We have been told same, and "calamity will soon overtake Zlon. " the pastors. " Nor is it political liberty, for, when be invisible was the real and the visible That was the Grand Prophecy: Zion should fall, chooses, the pope forbids Catholics to vote exThis is equivalent to saying that and Dowie die before Ahmad. cept some favorite of his is in danger of defeat. ge is not what we have experienced and. It appeared to be a risky step for the Promised It is not social and domestic liberty, because that al. repressed by t grave, and even prevent the bui plot, if the gro crated" by som. And morcover kind if the Cath of the matter. . 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