What is Ahmadiyyat? — Page 89
his · favour ? people to such death warrant. ·( 89 ) A pretender inviting a test issues his own The Promised Messiah issued this invitation again and again. He said he had thonsands of signs to show 'in his support, but if these were not enough he invited people to hear neither him nor his enemies; but to pray directly to God and hear what He bad to say on the question of his claims. Should God pronounce him a pre~eilder, he was nothing else. But should God pronounce hjm true, why hesitate to believe? • Eriends, how straight ana simple was ·this method of testing the claims of the Promised Messiah ! Thousands of persons benefited from it. The method can be adopted even now by tl;lose who waver over the question. The Promised Messiah's reliance on this method of prayer was evidence, again, of his general attitude towards religioi1.