Scattered Pearls — Page 31
30. The opponents of the Promised Messiah instituted false and trumped-up cases of a most serious nature in the daw courts of the country. Conspiracies were also made to kill him. Schemes were developed to set the government of the land against him. To efface the favourable impression created on the mind of the public by the rapid progress his Movement was making they published selfconcocted prophecies foretelling for him an inglorious end in death; to the very best of their endeavour, they :strove to bring failure to his Divine Mission%3B they persecuted his followers in a variety of heartless and inhuman ways. But by the grace of God in every difficulty, and every trial, the Movement he founded continued to march triumphantly forward day and night. This invisible help of God is not a material thing which you can touch and feel with your physical hands. It is a Light, a Ray of Might, which in the beginning can be perceived only with the eyes of the Spirit. It is this Divine Succour which the Promised. Messiah had in mind when he so feelingly wrote: "Everybody has launched. . His attack on me. In his own way; but at the end. Of every single battle. They found themselves in utter. Disgrace. What was no more. Than an insignificant drop,. His grace turned into a mighty. River. Indeed I was but a particle. Of dust, but His mercy. Has turned me into a veritable. Pleiades of the high heavens. (Braaheen-i-Ahmadiyya, Part V). I might here remark that one aspect of a Drop having been turned into a River can be seen even in this gathering. Our Annual Gathering started with an attendance only of 75, whereas to-day the number of those present has reached a total of 75,000; and the spectacle of the spiritual Pleiades, too, the world shall live to see at its own good time.