A Present to His Royal Highness - The Prince of Wales — Page 106
106 follow its teachings have ever been the recipients of Divine favours and blessings. The world has waxed full of sin, and rebellion and transgression abound, and God’s wrath is kindled. He will now reveal His face and will compel the world into submission. The world has denied Him and has persisted in its denial, and has dishonoured His word, and has forgotten the day of His meeting, and has mocked the day of Judgment. The rust of materialism has eaten into the souls of men, and they imagine that the prophets of God were men who possessed persuasive tongues and invented systems of religion to keep men within bounds; and they imagine that they can presume to teach God and can rule over His word. Extravagance has increased and the love of the world has captured the hearts of men. Man is being associated with God as His partner, and the punishment which has overtaken Muslims on account of their having turned away from Islam is being held up as a proof of the truth of this doctrine. Millions are being spent to induce men to renounce the worship of the One True God. God bore all this with patience and when men refused to attend to His revealed word, He sent His Promised Messenger to win men back to God, and he showed sign after sign and wonder after wonder, and with untiring patience and love he called men to the ways of peace, and on their persisting in their ways he warned them, saying:— “O Europe! Thou art not secure, nor art thou O Asia! and ye that dwell in islands, no self-made deity shall save you.