A Present to His Royal Highness - The Prince of Wales — Page 67
67 In the year 1896, God vouchsafed him a special opportunity of demonstrating the truth of his claims. In that year a Conference of Religions was held at Lahore, and the advocates of all religions were invited to explain the teachings and doctrines of their respective religions with regard to certain specified questions. The Promised Messiah was also invited by the conveners of the Conference, and in spite of bad health, he wrote a paper to be read in the Conference, concerning which God informed him that it would prove superior to all other papers which were to be read in the Conference. This prophecy was published in Lahore before the Conference was held. When this paper was read in the Conference, men of every religion listened to it with rapt attention, and their eagerness may be judged from the fact that the programme of the Conference had to be extended by one day in order to enable the reading of the paper to be concluded. It was acknowledged on all hands that this was by far the best paper read in the Conference, and it was commented on in most eulogistic terms by the press. Sign followed sign and wonder followed wonder in quick succession, and men’s faith increased and the righteous came from all quarters and swore spiritual allegiance to him. Seeing this, his enemies were sore troubled in their hearts and resolved upon a new mode of persecution. They felt that the failure of their previous efforts was due to the fact that owing to the fear of the law they had not been able to carry out their design openly. They, therefore, now hit upon the device of putting the machinery of the law in motion against him and thus making the very law the