Did Jesus Redeem Mankind? — Page 13
13 point does not call for any lengthy elaboration. This is a logically cogent theory that an imperfect object is neither eternal from the beginning nor everlasting, and a being lacking in these characteristics cannot be the deity. All religions are agreed on this ; even the Christian religion cannot challenge the stand that God must necessarily be eternal and everlasting while no imperfect being is eternal or everlasting. . It was in my early youth when I was about twenty years of age, that I happened to go to Dalhousie for a change. . A well-known Christian missionary, Mr. Ferguson by name, was on a visit there. He had converted hundreds of people to Christianity. He was engaged in distributing literature there and spreading the Christian mission work. Some. Muslims who had zeal for the faith approached their Maulvis urging them to counter-act this threat. But they pleaded their inability. At last they called on me and asked me to take it up with the missionary as they felt they had lost their face. . I was very young then and was not so advanced in theological studies, but I readily responded to their call. . Accordingly, a party of us started towards the Christian missionary's residence. On arrival there, I told him that I wanted to put a few questions to him. We were seated around a table at that time and a pencil was lying there before me. I put it to him that in case he wanted to pick up the pencil what would people think of him, if he called to his help me and his companions and his waiter and his cook and his neighbours and when all the people of the locality had collected, required of them to lift the pencil from the table and hand it over to him?. He asked me back what I was driving at. I wanted to know if it would be considered rational on his part and how people would react to it. He answered back that they would take