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88 spring, and it so happened that a severe earthquake occurred in February, 1906. At that time the people in the area affected were living in huts, so that many lives were not lost, but the restored buildings were destroyed and considerable loss of property was caused and Government had to postpone the restoration of several public buildings. The Promised Messiah had also foretold that numerous earthquakes would occur in countries outside India. Consequently, we find that the number of earthquakes that have occurred during the last seventeen years and the loss of life and property which they have occasioned cannot be matched by the earthquakes which have occurred during any period of three hundred years, in the previous history of the world. This sign is a testimony of the truth that He Who sent the Promised Messiah is as powerful over the interior forces of the earth as over its surface, and that His knowledge is boundless. THE SEVENTH MIRACLE. The Increase or Decrease of the Human Race. His seventh miracle demonstrates the truth that God controls the increase or decrease of the human race, and the following instance is an illustration of it. An enemy of the Promised Messiah, Maulawi Saadullah of Ludhiana, made a statement that after Ahmad’s death his Movement would come to an end, as there would be nobody to continue it. On this the Promised Messiah received a revelation that his enemy would remain childless and that his own seed would multiply. At that time Maulawi Saadullah had a son, so the prophecy meant that Maulawi Saadullah would