A Present to His Royal Highness - The Prince of Wales — Page 57
57 The Christian missionaries strove to turn the Government against him by saying, “This man dishonoureth Jesus,” and the Muslim priests strove to excite the multitude against him by saying, “This man blasphemeth,” for they were afraid that if they did not oppose him, the people would follow him and leave them. Then the chief priests caused a decree to be prepared in which they abused him and his followers and said that he was an unbeliever and deserved death, and enjoined the people to cause him loss and injury and not to let his followers be buried in the graveyards of the Muslims. Then the followers of every religion condemned him and considered not that which was written in the Books of God and had been spoken by His prophets. Everywhere those who accepted him were persecuted and the people in their blindness believed that they served God by persecuting them; and yet it was not so, for they served not Him but served the priests. When the priests saw that their efforts were of no avail, they invented falsehoods concerning him, and circulated handbills in which they abused him in the most offensive terms, and discovered new and ingenious modes of persecuting him, such as had not been thought of by the enemies of previous prophets. Some of them not satisfied with abusing him in handbills, for the British law did not permit of the publication of obscene language, invented safer and yet more virulent methods of venting their ill-nature and sent him unpaid letters full of language so foul that it cannot bear publication or repetition. He paid the postal dues for thousands of such letters only to find a store of