True Christianity and How It Leads to Islam — Page 34
TRUE CHRISTIANITY AND HOW IT LEADS T O IS L A M 34 fulfilled a few months ago”. (The Dunville Gazette, June 7, 1907) The “Truth Seeker” of New York remarked at the grandeur of the fulfillment: “The Qadian man predicted that if Dowie accepted the challenge, ‘he shall leave the world before my eyes with great sorrow and torment’. If Dowie declined, the Mirza said, ‘the end would only be deferred; death awaited him just the same, and calamity will soon overtake Zion. This was the Grand Prophecy: Zion should fall and Dowie die before Ahmad. It appeared to be a risky step for the Promised Messiah to defy the restored Elijah to an endurance test, for the challenger was by 15 years the older man of the two, and odds, in a land of plagues and religious fanatics were against him, as a survivor. But he won out”. (The “Truth Seeker” June 15, 1907) The “Boston Herald”, wrote about the victory of Hazrat Ahmad: “Dowie died with his friends fallen away from him and his fortune dwindled. He suffered from paralysis and insanity. He died a miserable death, with Zion City torn and frayed by internal dissensions. Mirza comes forward frankly and states that he had won h is challenge”. (The “Boston Herald”, June 23, 1907) This wonderful work of the Living God, on one hand,