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13 away, a Hindu journal wrote: "To the last moment of his life. Mirza Sahib remained firm on his purpose: in the teeth of opposition from a thousand quarters, he never wavered and never swerved. " (Indar, Lahore>>. Similarly a Christian author wrote to the effect: "The moral courage which Mirza. Sahib showed in the face of severe opposition and persecution is highly praiseworthy. " (Ahmadiyya Movement, by H. A. Walter). . A non-Ahmadi Muslim journal wrote: "Passing through a raging fire of opposition and adverse criticism, Mirza. Sahib cleared a path for himself, and attained to the highest peak of success. ” (Curzon Gazette, Delhi). While on one side this quality and calibre of the. Promised Messiah graphically illustrates his patient steadfastness of purpose, on the other it constitutes a strong argument in support of the fact that he had the fullest and most unqualified trust in God-that the Divine Hand will never suffer the plant to be destroyed which the. Divine Purpose itself and had made to sprout out of the earth. Wrote Hazrat Ahmad in one place: "O thou that looketh at me. With baleful, venomous eyes,. Beware of the Gardner's wrath,. For indeed I am the vlaued branch. That beareth fruit!" (Izalah Auhaam). The younger generations of the Ahmadiyya Movement; the local Ameers; the Ansarullah and the Khuddamul. Ahmadiyya, with their office bearers and membership; the missionaries of the Movement; and the office bearers