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216 to the mission house, and how he was tempted to give evidence against the Promised Messiah as. On the crucial day when the chips were down and the Christian and Muslims were jubilant that the Promised Messiah as would face a capital punishment, ‘Abdul H am i d, broke down and said that his earlier testimony that he had been sent by the Promised Messiah as to murder Dr. Clark was all “a cooked up” affair, and that the Christian Missionary had tutored him to testify before the court, but his inner voice had overcome him and he could not give such a false evidence against the Promised Messiah as. There is one point of comparison in this trial, and that of the trial of Jesus Christ, that unlike Pilate, who tried Jesus Christ, Capt. Douglas treated the Promised Messiah as with due honour and always offered him a chair in the court. His great sense of justice was further illustrated by the fact that in strict accordance with judicial custom he refused to give a chair to a witness, caring little for pressure brought upon him by missionaries. This witness was none other than Maulav i Muhammad H ussain Bat a lv i - the Caiphas of the later days, who seeing the Promised Messiah as seated in a chair, was consumed with a boundless feeling of jealousy and asked for a similar honour for himself, but it was refused. And when he pressed his demand with importunity arguing that he and his father were Kurs i Nash i n (always honoured and offered chair) and that he was recognized as such by the Lieutenant Governor, the patience of Capt. Douglas was exhausted by these impudent and baseless assertions of this high priest and he had no qualms in dealing with him and administered a sharp rebuke, saying “Bak bak mat kar, p i che hat aur s i dh a kharh a ho j a. ” (Shut up your nonsense, get back and stand properly). In this book, the Promised Messiah as also dealt at length with the false Christian beliefs and refuted them one by one. The Christian missionary also raised the point that the Promised Messiah as had been decrying Jesus Christ in his book and using disrespectful language. On this, the Promised Messiah as referred to the Christian writings against