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another instance is not found in human annals of his times. 8. In my Paper last year I stated how a former ruler of Afghanistan, namely Amir. Habibullah Khan, had one of his most influential nobles and religious leaders, of such outstanding eminence that he had officiated at the coronation, buried waist-deep in the ground, and stoned to death in that position, for no other offence except this that he had yielded belief to the Promised Messiah; and that to the very last moment of his life, this great martyr continued to proclaim that whatever the consideration, he was not prepared to deny a truth which he had seen with his own eyes, had felt with the whole force of his being. When this same ruler of Afghanistan, who had ordered Syed Abdul Latif to be killed with such torture, subsequently came on a visit to India, as a guest of the British government, the news came out in the press that on occasions he had entered mosque for prayers with his shoes on, without taking the trouble to remove them, as is normally done in India. This action on his part was severely 28