A Present to His Royal Highness - The Prince of Wales — Page 70
70 some occasions he was not allowed to sit down or drink water when feeling faint with sickness. But in every case he was honourably acquitted and in each case the result was foretold, and those Magistrates who had treated him so inhumanly were very soon overtaken by Divine punishment and thus served to confirm the truth of his claim. As men witnessed these signs, they joined the Ahmadiyyah Movement in large numbers, and one phenomenon contributed very largely towards the spread of the Movement. When the plague appeared in India, he proclaimed that very few of his followers would be stricken with it and that Quadian, his own village, would be protected against destructive plague, and that not a single individual residing within his house would die of it. He also challenged his opponents to proclaim a similar immunity for themselves if, as they claimed, they were God’s elect, but very few dared to do so, and those who did, were very soon carried off by the plague. His own prophecy was, however, fulfilled to the letter. Not a single individual, not even a rat, died of plague in his house, in spite of the fact that for four years people continued to die of the plague in neighbouring houses. Again, Quadian was protected from its destructive attacks, and very few of his followers died of it. Even in places where its attacks were most violent, his followers were conspicuous for their immunity from the plague and seizures were very rare among them. People marvelled greatly at this and hundreds of thousands joined his Movement as a result of it. Now the time arrived for God to call him away and to