Hazrat Ahmad — Page 33
HADHRAT AHMAD 33 in the proceedings that no attack was to be made on any creed. The following five subjects were specified upon which the exponents of different faiths were invited to present their thesis: 1. The physical, moral and spiritual conditions of man. 2. The state of man after death. 3. The object of man's life on earth and the means of its attainment. 4. The effect of human actions on this life and the next. 5. What are the sources of spiritual knowledge?. The initiator of the conference had come to Qadian to meet the. Promised Messiah himself, who had suggested the idea of the conference to the initiator on a previous occasion, when he happened to be on a visit to Qadian. The sole purpose of the. Promised Messiah was to acquaint the world with the truth of the message with which he had been sent. He was not actuated by any desire for personal advertisement of display. He, therefore, persuaded the gentleman to try and give a practical form to the suggestions and the first notice of the conference was actually printed and published at Qadian. The Promised Messiah directed one of his disciples to render the gentleman every possible assistance, and himself promised to contribute a paper. When, however, he began to write the paper he suffered a severe attack of diarrhea. Nevertheless, he completed the paper. While he was engaged in writing it, the revelation came to him, meaning that this paper would excel all others at the conference. Accordingly, he issued a handbill announcing beforehand that in conformity with the revelation his paper would be pronounced the best at the conference. . The sessions of the conference were fixed for the 26th, 27th and 28th of December 1896. Six gentlemen were appointed moderators of the conference. They were: 1. Rai Bahadur Pratul Chandra Chatterjee, Judge, Chief Court,. Punjab; 2. Khan Bahadur Shaikh Khoda Bakhsh Sahib, Judge, small Cause. Court, Lahore; 3. Rai Bahadur Pandi Radha Krishan, Vakil, Chief Court, late