A Present to His Royal Highness - The Prince of Wales — Page 27
27 Kingdom of God upon Earth? So had their ancestors spoken concerning Jesus, If he is indeed a king, then let him show us the signs of one. They forgot that kingdoms are not of the Earth alone, but also of the heart, as the people of these days forget that humility and forgiveness alone are not virtues and that to punish the transgressor, to rescue the weak and the oppressed from the power of the tyrant, and to establish justice and truth in the world also count as virtues, and that he alone is perfect who exercises each of these virtues when occasion or necessity calls for it. In short, noble prince! (may God open your heart to the acceptance of truth!) the advent of a mighty Prophet after Jesus had been foretold, who was to come in the power and spirit of Moses, and the object of the second advent of Jesus was to fulfil the law of this second Moses, as the object of his first advent was to fulfil the law of the first Moses; and in order to establish a resemblance between the two dispensations it was necessary that the interval between the first Moses and the first advent of Jesus should correspond with the interval between the appearance of the second Moses and the second advent of Jesus. History informs us that the former interval was between thirteen and fourteen centuries, and as over thirteen hundred years have now passed after the advent of the second Moses, this is another indication that the present is the age appointed for the second advent of Jesus. It may occur to Your Royal Highness that Islam is in such a sorry plight in these days that it is impossible that