Truth About the Split — Page 143
143 Thereupon, I submitted to the Khalifatul Masih ra reference to the explanation which the Promised Messiah as had himself given of this passage, and once more, I put it to the Khalifatul Masih ra that if he did not approve of the publication of the article, I would gladly withhold it. In reply, the Khalifatul Masih ra said "I am no hypocrite. You had better publish the article. " What he meant was that in granting me permission to print the article, he had not acted with duplicity. My purpose in putting the question again and again was to prevent all possible objections. Later on, the proofs of the article were also submitted to the Khalifatul Masih ra. But again there was delay in his looking through the proofs. This gave occasion to our friends to spread, for a second time, the report that the Khalifatul Masih ra had the copy washed from the printing stone and prohibited the publication of the article. But ultimately the proofs also were looked through by Hadrat Khalifatul Masih ra and so the article at last was published. It is clear from all this that the article in question was not published in haste. It was read through twice, from beginning to end, by the Khalifatul Masih ra himself, and was corrected at various places in his own hand. (The original article, corrected by Hadrat Khalifatul Masih is still with me and is evidence of