ammad who established the Kingdom, both spiritual and temporal, on this earth. Professor Browne spoke the truth when
be stated that the Bahais were clever enough to adapt their preaching to the ear of their interlocuter without caring much for the scruples of truth. That Bah aullah claimed Divinity for himself in unambiguous terms, and founded a new creed of his own quite apart from the great religion of Islam, is a fact which cannot be denied nor disowned. But his followers show him up in different garbs as suited their purpose on the occasion. To the Christians they would say that Bahaullah was the incarnation of God the Father, and his son Abbas Effendi was that of God the Son i.e, Jesus the Christ. The Christians who believe in the pagan doctrine of Incarnation, are thus easily taken in. But when a Bahai accosted and addressed an Ahmadi Musal man who believed Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad to be the Promised Messiah and Mahdi, foretold in the sacred scriptures, the Bahai would spread another net, and exhibit Bahaullah as a claimant to Messiahship only, and argue that since Bahaullah had proclaimed himself as such, i. e. Promised Messiah, long before Hadzrat Mirza Sahib, 80 Bahaullah, and not Mirza Ghulam Ahmad should be accepted as the real Messiah. Making a reference to a prophecy in the Old Testament (Daniel 8:14), a Bahai jumps
to the queer conclusion that the event of the Second Coming of Christ was fulfilled in the appearance of Bah aullah "the only Messiah in the world". From the super-most and supreme height of Divinity to the humbler position of a human Messiah is indeed a great fall to ascribe to his object of worship and adoration. We shall, however, refer to verses (Chapter XII. 9-11), of the same Book of Daniel where the time of the Second Coming of Jesus, son of Mary, had been foretold in quite distinct and definite terms : Go thy way Daniel, for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end. Many shall be purified and made white, and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly and none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand. And from the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away, and the abomination that maketh desolate, set up, there shall be a thousand, two hundred and ninety days. The advent of the Messiah shall take 1290 years after the abrogation of the Daily Sacrifice. A day, in the language of the Prophecy, sometimes means a year and sometimes a
-thousand years of our human reckoning. Turn over Chapter 4, of the Book of Prophet Ezekiel, and read verse 6: I have appointed thee each day for a year. The Jews made burnt offering at the altar. They slaughtered lambs before the tabernacle and consigned them to flames. This practice the Jews for. sook in the sixth century C.E. which synchronized with the time of the advent -of the Prophet of Arabia. Daniel prophesied that the Messiah shall re-appear 1290 years after the abolition of the Daily Sacrifice, i. e. 1290 years after the Holy Prophet Muhammad. Compare what Hadzrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, Founder of the Ahmadiyya Movement, wrote in his famous Book, Haqiqat-ul- Wahy, page HlO: It is wonderful indeed, and I look upon it as a sign from God, that this humble servant had been blessed with Divine Communion precisely in the year 1920 A.H. (i. e. 1290 years after the Holy Prophet). Let us, for the statisfaction of our Bahai friend assume that Bahaullah, and not Hadzrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, was the Messiah who was to appear in the present age. Now the -queetion naturally arises. Has Bahaullah performed and fulfilled the mission ordained
for the Promised Messiah? The prime purpose of the advent of the Messiah, as stated in the sacred scriptures, was to overturn the Religion of Cross, and rectify and reform the errors that had crept into the simple, monotheistic faith preached by Prophet Jesus, son of Mary. That Jesus was the heavenly Son of God who did not belong to earthly humanity; who came to this: world assuming human form in order to atone for the sins of human race by his own blood on the Cross : who rose from the dead