Truth About Ahmadiyyat — Page 23
23 to charge him with being the agent of the Government and on the other hand reported to the Government that he was disloyal and intended to bring about a rebellion. On one occasion he received a revelation in Persian to the effect that the British Empire would last only for eight years and that thereafter a period of weakness and disorder and decline would set in. He communicated this revelation only to some members o f his Movement. When Maulvi Muhammad Hussain Sahib of Batala, who was always in search for something on the basis of which he might be able to establish that the Promised Messiah, peace be on him, was disloyal to and a rebel against the British Government, learnt of this revelation from a member of the Movement, he at once wrote an article justifying his assertion that he was a rebel who desired to bring about the end of the British Government and Empire. In any case, is it not surprising that a person who, according to his opponents, had been put up by the British Government should convey to his followers that the days of that Government had been numbered? Had he been put up by the British he would have pr opagated in support of the strength and permanence of the Government rather than make a prophecy that the Government would not last for much longer. Another matter that is worthy of note is that the British Government spent millions of pounds in the effort to establish Christianity in its colonial possessions. They published a vast literature in support of this effort and helped to train thousands of m issionaries for that purpose. Under the auspices of the Bible Religious Society millions of copies of the Bible were printed in