Life of Ahmad — Page 435
as AHMAD as NEVER WISHED ILL 435 week followed week and month followed month and he went on praying and preaching, suffering not a day to pass without calling men to God. Those who observed him at work sometimes grew impatient and those who had the honour of assisting him in his work, though they did so only in turns, sometimes felt weary and were spent, but in spite of his old age and weak health, he neither tired nor grew weary and went about the Lord’s work ever cheerful and happy. He heeded not the opposition which was offered to him, nor the abuse which was heaped upon him, and returned a stern answer only when he was afraid that truth would suffer without it and even then his object always was to correct and not to inflict pain. When Christian missionaries saw that neither their opposition nor the opposition of the mullahs could keep the people away from Ahmad as they took counsel among themselves and devised a new means to prevent Ahmad as from doing his work. They roped in the European editor of the semi-government paper of the province, the Civil and Military Gazette of Lahore, which published (October 24th, 1894) a statement to the effect that Ahmad as was disloyal to the government. Dr. Henry Martyn Clark and his European colleagues must have felt jubilant in their hearts at the severe blow which they had struck against Ahmad as , but those who knew were convinced that Christianity had become bankrupt. By resorting to such mean tricks Christian missionaries proved that they had nothing better to say. Like the pharisees of