Stories from Early Ahmadiyyat — Page 25
The Great Religious Conference Towards the close of the nineteenth century, a Hindu leader named Swami Sadhu Shugan Chandar and his associates organised a religious conference wherein the followers of different religions could demonstrate the truths and beauties contained in their respective reli- gions. He invited Hazrat Ahmad as to participate in the conference to be held in Lahore. Despite ill health Hazrat Ahmad as agreed to participate in the conference. The organisers of the religious conference set up a working committee consisting of Hindu, Muslim, and Christian members. The committee decided to hold the conference on the 26th, 27th, and 28th of December, 1896, at Lahore. Invitations were sent to scholars of vari- ous religions, who were to base their speeches on the fol- lowing five topics: 1. The physical, moral, and spiritual states of man. 2. Life after death. 3. The object of man’s life and the means for its attainment.