Ahmadiyyat - The Renaissance of Islam — Page 322
322 AHMADIYY AT of terror, or to the help that it was able to render to everyone within its reach. Hazrat Khalifatul Masih II moved from his temporary residence in Lahore to his permanent residence at Rabwah on 19 September 1949 and was now able to devote his full attention to the establishment of the new W orId Head- quarters of the Movement, pulling together all the threads that bound the Community together and restarting the for- ward march of the Movement which had been so grievously interrupted by the tragic events that followed upon the partition of the country. The finances of the Community had fallen into a certain degree of inevitable disarray and were speedily reorganized on a firm basis and henceforward went on multiplying themselves in a surprising manner. In April 1949, the Annual Conference of the Movement had already been held in Rabwah, and most of the institutions of the Movement were re-established in Rabwah in the course of the year. Of the principal institutions, only the Talimul Islam College continued in the D. A. V. College building in Lahore, awaiting the construction of its own building at Rabwah. This took another five years. After the move of the Khalifatul Masih to Rabwah, everything began to hum as of yore and all the branches in Pakistan and abroad became firmly knitted together once more under the unobstructed and freely circu- lating guidance of the Khalifatul Masih. The Movement had established footholds in British East Africa, as it then was, in the time of the Promised Messiah. The footholds became linked together in course of time, and during the Second Khilafat burgeoned into a network of active branches. In the early years of the Second Khilafat, branches of the Movement had been established in the British colonies of West Africa and were doing very good work. Indeed, they were making such rapid progress that Christian missionaries in West Africa, and those interested in the spread of Chris- tianity in the West African states, began to be apprehensive