Hazrat Maulvi Nooruddin - Khalifatul-Masih I — Page 209
Hadrat Maulw i Nur-ud-D i n ra — Khalifatul Masih I KHILAFAT 209 14:38). Make a resolve that you may pass both tests and be included among those who achieve great triumph (33-72). " 89 The Annual Conference of 1909 was postponed to the spring of 1910 and was held on March 25-27, 1910. It was a very successful gathering, and a large number of persons took the pledge, but Hadrat Khalifatul Masih ra was not entirely satisfied and gave expression to his uneasiness in his next Friday sermon, in the course of which he observed: "I have come here with great difficulty. I have not been feeling well at all. I have a splitting headache. During this period of indisposition I have made a deep study of your condition and mine. I have sometimes been afraid of losing my eyesight; and have also thought of the eye of God that misses nothing. In short, my thoughts have ranged over a wide field. I had it in mind to recite: I bear witness that there is no god besides Allah; and sit down, but there is an urgency that compels me to speak. You may assume as if this is my last day, and what I am going to say are my last words. You gathered here, and there have also been meetings at G u r u kul, and of the Anjuman H im a yat-e-Isl a m in Lahore, and of the Educational Conference at ‘Al i garh, at which reports were read. Here too our reporter told us all about income and expenditure. But I have been thinking why did we gather together here? The money could have been remitted through the post office, and the report could have been printed and mailed. The attendance was three thousand. Even if only the leading ones out of