Scattered Pearls — Page 5
4 no Arya, however eminent, and no. Christian Padre however well read had the courage to open his lips in the arena against the deceased in his life. He belonged to the Punjab, but there was such force in his pen that today, not only in the Punjab, but all over India, there is no one else with such a powerful pen. The literature created by him is most unique in its grandeur, there being portions which produce a kind of ecstacy of feeling in you when you go through them. Passing through prophecies foretelling discomfiture and destruction, and the severest opposition and hostile criticism, he cleared. way for himself, attaining to the highest peak of success. " a (Curzon Gazette, June 1, 1903) 2. The next thing I desire to mention in connection with the Life and Personality of the Promised Messiah, and which in fact forms the first pearl in this string, pertains to his perfect conviction in regard to the Divine origin of his. Mission. This quality and characteristic had attained to such a pitch in his case as to gleam through each and every word he spoke, through each and every movement he made. In fact it always appeared that strengthened by this conviction most deeply rooted in his mind, he was prepared to hurl himself against the most massive mountain in the world. Concerning the Divine origin of his Mission, and of the Revelations of which he was a recipient on frequent occasions he would go on oath before Allah, calling for the most condign punishment if he was a liar in the sight of God and on these occasions he would exclaim that on this point he had the same perfect certainty and conviction which people feel in regard to the