Truth About the Split — Page 277
277 occasions their true self asserted itself and exposed their inner nature to him, they made haste to seek his pardon and thus save themselves from the consequences of their conduct. Apathy to Propagation of Ahmadiyyat Meanwhile the extent of apathy that had come over the Community in the matter of the propagation of Ahmadiyyat may be measured from the fact that whereas in the days of the Promised Messiah as it was a matter of complaint on the part of Dr. Abdul Hakim that members of the Jama'at loved nothing better than to hear about the Promised Messiah as and to make him the one theme of all their discourses, in April 1912, when I had occasion to accompany a deputation to visit the various Arabic Madrassas with a view to devising a suitable scheme for the Madrassa Ahmadiyya, and had occasion to deliver lectures at Lucknow, Benares and Cawnpore, I observed that everywhere members of the Jama'at were anxious that the lectures should contain no reference to Ahmadiyyat. For, they were afraid that in that case people would either not attend the lectures or else would receive them in a hostile spirit. My reply to this was that it was not my object to win popular applause. What I wished was to deliver the message of truth. If