A Present to His Royal Highness - The Prince of Wales — Page 46
46 Christians and Hindus disliked him already for his championship of Islam, and now the Muslims began also to oppose him. Their priests, who were the representatives of the Scribes and Pharisees, could not contemplate the idea of people transferring their allegiance from them to him, for they knew that those who joined him would be liberated from the bonds which the priests had devised and would brook no rule but that of God. He, however, went on working silently as he had been commanded but God had not yet fully revealed unto him what place he held in His sight, just as in the early days of his ministry the first Messiah did not know that God had made him the Messiah, as is written that in the second year of his ministry, he asked his disciples saying, Whom do men say that I the son of man am? And they said, Some say that thou art John the Baptist: some, Elias; and others, Jeremias, or one of the prophets. He saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am? And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the son of the living God. And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-Jona; for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven…. Then charged He His disciples that they should tell no man that He was Jesus the Christ. ∗ So was it with the Second Messiah that for two years after he made his first disciples, he did not know that he was the Messiah, but towards the end of the year 1890 God’s angel descended upon him and revealed the whole truth unto him, that is, that he himself was the Messiah ∗ Matthew xvi: 13—17, 20.