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would find it in his heart to raise any objection against the teaching and the attitude of the Promised Messiah in this behalf. He would not fail to perceive that the things which the Promised Messiah wrote about British rule in India, nearly seventy years ago, were by no means in the manner of flattery, but a just appraisal of the peace and tranquility, and the religious freedom and tolerance which British rule had brought in its wake. . Apart from that, the attitude and the struggle of the Promised Messiah against. Christianity, the religion of British rulers, on the religious and intellectual leval, is too patent a fact, well known even to the most casual observer of the affairs of this sub-continent. In one of his poems in Arabic, Hazrat Ahmad writes, with remarkable force and vigour, and the greatest jealous regard for the honour of Islam : "Look at the Christians,. And the patently false doctrines. They believe in! Also give. A moments's thought to the evils 43