Fulfilment of a Grand Prophecy - Hazrat Ahmad’s Challenge to John Alexander Dowie — Page 83
Fulfillment of a Grand Prophecy. THE SUNDAY HERALD, Boston, June 23, 1907. GREAT IS MIRZA GHULAM AHMAD THE MESSIAH. FORETOLD PATHETIC END OF DOWIE, AND NOW HE PREDICTS PLAGUE,. FLOOD AND EARTHQUAKE. Twenty Three were the days of August in 1903. when Mirza Ghulam Ahmad of Qadian, India foretold the death of Alexander Dowie, yelped. Elijah III, which took place last March, and now cometh the aforementioned Mirza Ghulam Ahmad of Qadian, India, on June 23 and saith: "The turn of this country is drawing near. . Earthquakes. will be unparalleled in the world history and will remind men of the destruction of the judgment day. . In Europe and other Christian countries a kind of plague will makes its appearance, which will be very severe. . With my appearance, the secret designs of the wrath of God have been made manifest. . The days of Noah will you again witness, and the scene of Lot's land you will see with your own eyes. "He called the turn on Dowie, and may he not on devastation?" his followers ask, "He has foretold plague too in the Punjab and other places and great is the name Mirza Ghulam Ahmad of. Qadian India. ". The Indian gentleman has been well known in the eastern pastures of the world for many years. . His claim is that he is "the true Messiah who was to come in the last ages and that God has showered him with Grace. He first came to the attention of the United States in 1903 on account of a controversy with Elijah III. Since the death of. Dowie, the Indian prophet's reputation has soared, for did he not tell the death of Dowie, that it should take place within his (the Messiah) lifetime, should take place with great sorrow and torment. . Dowie was aged 59. The seer was 75. "". It was in these words that Dowie was requested to strip for the fray: 87 "I am the True Messiah who was to come in the last ages: thus has Almighty spoken to me. I do not claim to be the promised Messiah simply by my own assertion, but Almighty God who made the earth and heaven has borne witness to the truth of my claim. " "The evidence of God has been manifested in hundreds of heavenly signs shown in my support. . I say it truly that Almighty God has poured his grace upon me in far greater abundance than upon the Messiah who has gone before me. In the looking glass of my person the face of God is revealed to a far greater extent than in that Jesus' person. If these are simply my own assertions, and there is no other authority for them, I am a liar: but if Almighty God bears witness to my truth, no one give the lie to me. Thousands of times-I should say times without number-has He borne witness to the truth of my claim. " "A sign of the evidence of God in my favor will appear on the death of Mr. Pigott, the arrogant pretender to divinity, who shall be brought to destruction within my lifetime. . Another sign will appear on Dr. Dowie's acceptance of my challenge. If the pretender to. Elijahship shows his willingness by any direct or indirect means to enter the lists against me, he shall leave the world before my eyes with great sorrow and torment. These two signs are particularly for Europe and America. Ah! that they ponder over them and benefit by them. " "I should be borne in mind that Dr. Dowie has no given any reply to my challenge sent to him in. September last, nor has he even so much as mentioned it in his paper. For an answer to that challenge I will wait for a further period of seven months from this day, the 23rd of August 1903. If