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278 people would choose not to hear it or choose to receive it in a hostile spirit, it was their own concern. As for myself, I should only discharge my duty in the sight of God. One man from Lucknow who has since entered into my Bai‘at actually wrote to Hadrat Khalifatul Masih I ra. "Would that you had sent along with the deputation a man of ripe experience, for these men adopt a method of preaching from which troubles may well be apprehended. Miya ń Sahib (i. e. the present writer) is still in his early youth and is apt in his enthusiasm to overlook the suitability of the hour. God forbid that there should occur some violence and our name be brought to odium. There is still time for you to send a person of experience well aware of the need of the times. " When I returned from the tour, Hadrat Khalifatul Messiah informed me of the purport of the letter and expressed his strong disapproval of it. At Lucknow it was originally proposed to deliver two lectures. But after one had been delivered, the other had to be abandoned; and this was mainly due to objections raised by Ahmadis themselves, though, of course, difficulties were raised by opponents of the Jama'at also. In private interviews, however, we made it a point to convey our message with the greatest possible clearness. The same was our experience in Benares. Ahmadis of this place professed at the time