Life of Ahmad — Page 735
as BISHOP OF LAHORE AND ISLAM 735 to who, of Jesus as and Muhammad sa , is the greater Prophet in respect of knowledge, personal example, and spiritual influence. A large number of Muslims also wrote to the Bishop as follows: 'We, the undersigned, respectfully beg leave to submit the following proposal to you. As our transient wordly life is passing away like a summer cloud and the time draws near when it shall pass away into eternity and leave not a rack behind, it is our deepest concern that the pilgrimage of life should come to a close in true righteousness and heavenly bliss, that we may breathe our last as professors of a faith which shows the path to Divine Will. If we are not on the right path, we are ready heart and soul to accept the truth provided it is elucidated to us with clear and cogent arguments. If anyone can pluck up courage to come forward and prove to us the truth of the Christian religion, he shall lay us under the greatest obligation. It is our hearts’ inmost desire and we are always anxious that an inquiry be made into the comparative merits and excellences of Christianity and Islam, and that on the result of the investigation we should bow submission to the Holy Prophet sa who transcends the whole world in the purity of heart, excellence, Divine power and moral rectitude. Since we have heard of your lectures at Lahore on the subject of 'The