Life of Ahmad — Page 476
CONFERENCE OF RELIGIONS as 476 some fruit and the matter was taken up a few months afterwards by a few enlightened people. Towards the end of 1896 certain gentlemen resolved to convene a conference of religions at Lahore. They invited the advocates of different religions to take part in it. The invitation was cordially accepted. It was proposed to hold the conference in the Lahore Town Hall, but eventually it took place at the Islamia College, Lahore. It was laid down as one of the conditions of the proceedings that no attack was to be made on any creed, and the following five subjects were selected, upon which the exponents of the different systems were invited to write their theses: 1. The physical, moral and spiritual condition of man. 2. The state of man after death. 3. The object of man’s life on earth and the means for attainnig the same. 4. The effect of actions in this life and the next. 5. What are the means for the attainment of spiritual knowledge? The initiator of the conference came to Qadian to meet Ahmad, the Promised Messiah as , and the latter promised to give him every assistance. As a matter of fact, it was the Promised Messiah as himself, who had suggested the idea of the conference to the initiator on an earlier visit to Qadian. The sole object of the Promised Messiah as was to acquaint the world with the truth of his mission. He was not actuated by a