A Present to His Royal Highness - The Prince of Wales — Page 85
85 fulfilled and men might fear their Maker. This prayer was published, and in his book the “ Noor- ul-Haqq ” he proclaimed that God had told him that if people persisted in their denial after the darkening of the sun and the moon, they would be severely chastised. He also proclaimed that the plague would visit every town, village and hamlet of the Punjab. These visions and revelations were widely published by means of books and pamphlets. Then the plague appeared and raged with such fury throughout the country and specially in the Punjab, that it has already carried off three million men. This indeed is a mighty sign, for no man hath power to bring about such changes in the atmosphere as would cause pestilential germs to multiply, and to prepare a whole country to succumb to their poison. From one end of the country to the other, one witnessed the effects of this pestilence. Ruined and deserted residences bear eloquent testimony to the fact that the denial of a prophet is a thing so fatal that even a Merciful God cannot tolerate it, for if He tolerated it men would advance in wickedness and would be shut out from eternal life. FIFTH MIRACLE. New Kinds of Pestilences. I desire to relate another instance of the same kind, for being more recent it is more noteworthy. In order to establish the truth of his messengers God sometimes brings into existence new kinds of pestilences. About 25 years ago, the Promised Messiah (on whom be peace and blessings of God!) published a revelation