Scattered Pearls — Page 43
42. This matchless and unrivalled teaching of the Promised. Messiah has brought a highly significant revolution in the mentality of the members of the Ahmadiyya Movement, laying a most true and abiding foundation in the world for international and inter-communal peace, and amity and goodwill. Of course at the moment, to begin with, it has widened the field of prejudice and hostility against us, enveloping us in a ring of universal fire; for every nation has taken us to be rival who should be eliminated at all cost. But we remain confident that this is the point of view, and this the principle, which shall, God willing, finally become the last basis for all international goodwill and peace, the whole world coming under the banner raised by the Holy Prophet Muhammad, and by his deputy, the Promised Messiah. Then shall have come to pass what the Muhammadi Masih said in this respect : 05 "There shall be only one religion in the world, and one Guide and one Leader. . I have come only to sow the seed. . So I have truly put the seed into the earth and now it shall thrive and prosper, and no one can stop it". . But here, perhaps, I have rather swerved to one side, to some extent, from the proper subject of this talknamely, the personality and mind of the Promised. Messiah, his characteristic traits and habits, the distinctive features of the social or other gatherings around him. and his significant sayings on various occasions. in connection with various things. But leaving these things aside, I seem to have rather involved myself in a discussion on some principles. On looking more closely at the matter, however, it will be found that these things have also a very close psychological connection with the subject of my talk. For, evidently, they throw a flood of light on the inherent bent of the Promised Messiah's mind, and on the extraordinary purity and perfection of his views life, providing, in the sum total, an argument of the greatest possible strength and validity, to establish