Message of Love and Brotherhood to Africa — Page 11
11 has been impressed by its message of love. I met this young man of thirty-five at a time when he had just won a civil war ending up in the surrender of Biafra, a civil war supported by foreign countries and foreign missionaries. He had crushed out all their plans. Some three weeks before I met with him, the archbishop of West Africa had paid him a visit and was given a cool reception. He was not even requested for a blessing, notwithstanding the fact that he was a fellow Christian and a church leader. In fact the Archbishop offered to pray for him to save his own face. But when I met him we had hardly sat down when he asked me for the blessing of a prayer—he seemed to have such feelings of warm appreciation for the Ahmadiyya Movement. I didn’t quite catch his meaning; It occurred to me that being a Christian he had asked me as a matter of formality for a benedictory blessing since I happen to be a religious leader. I answered back that I was given to praying and shall pray for him too. But when I looked at him and saw the expression at his face I thought I had failed to grasp his meaning and then asked him if he was suggesting that I should pray then and there formally with