A Present to His Royal Highness - The Prince of Wales — Page 64
64 the people and some stood up and reviled him, at which he would stop till the interruption had ceased, and would start preaching again. Those who heard him marvelled, for what they saw was quite different from what they had been told. Wherever he went he restored sight to the blind and hearing to the deaf, and the lepers were made clean, and the sick were healed, and the dead were raised, and those that were thus restored to new life did not depart for their homes but so loved him that they could not bear separation from him, and were ever ready to shed their blood where his sweat had fallen. After this he went to Lahore, and thence to Sialkot and thence to Jullundhur and thence a second time to Ludhiana, and thence he returned to Quadian, and in all his journeys he preached the word of God. He had to undertake these journeys for God had willed that he should acquire a resemblance to the first Messiah who had been sent to seek for the lost sheep of Israel and to gather them; otherwise he resided generally at Quadian and preached the word of God by means of books, pamphlets and handbills or by sending his disciples into the world to preach and call men to God, for it had been written that the son of man, in his second advent, would not go about preaching but “he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other. ” ∗ In the year 1893 he held a great controversy with the Christians which lasted for a fortnight. ∗ Matthew xxiv: 31.