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the Christian belief that Jesus passed by the way of death and 

 resurrection into the glory of His Father, and also the 

 Muhammadan belief that Jesus without death was " taken up " 

 to God. His conclusion is that " Christ died like ordinary 

 mortals " (Kaslif-ul-Ghitd, p. 13), and the consequences which 

 he would draw from this conclusion are as follows : (1) nega- 

 tively, (a) the overthrow of the doctrine of Christ's sacrificial 

 death, resurrection, ascension and second coming, as accepted 

 by Christians, and. (b) the overthrow of the belief that Christ 

 was " taken up " to God and will come again to the help of the 

 Mahdi as accepted by Muhammadans ; and (2) positively, the 

 leaving of the way open for the coming of one who will come 

 in " the spirit and power " of Christ, yea, who has already 

 come in the person of the Moghul Messiah, Ghulam Ahmad, of 

 Qadian. 



Thus the negative work has been done and the ground has 

 been cleared for the constructive part of the Qadian! proof. It 

 is unnecessary to elaborate the positive side of the argument in 

 detail. A few hints will suffice. It is chiefly along the line of 

 parallelism or correspondence that the constructive argument is 

 developed. 



(1) Correspondence between the First Adam and the Second 

 Adam. At the close of the sixth day, God created the first 

 Adam. But one day is with the Lord as a thousand years. 

 Therefore at the close of the sixth millennium or the beginning 

 of the seventh, the second Adam is to appear. But we are now 

 at the beginning of the seventh millennium, if we reckon accord- 

 ing to the lunar year, which is the inspired mode of reckoning ; 

 and so the time is fulfilled for the second Adam to be mani- 

 fested. Where is the second Adam to appear ? " In the east 

 and not in the west," says the Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, " for from 

 Gen. ii, 8, we learn that God had put the first Adam in a 

 garden eastward. It is therefore necessary that the second 

 Adam should appear in the east, in order to have a resemblance 

 with the first in respect of his locality " (Review of Religions, 

 January, 1902, p. 15). Hence the Mirza Ghulam Ahmad is 

 demonstrated to be not only the Messiah of Islam but also the 

 Second Adam, In the Mirza's Sialkot address (Revieiv of 

 Religions, November, 1904, p. 397) the parallelism is still 

 further elaborated : " In being last of all he (i.e., Mirza Ghulam 

 Ahmad) has a resemblance with Adam who was the first of all. 

 . . . Moreover, Adam was born on Friday and along with 

 him was born a woman. So it happened in my case, viz., I too 

 was born on Friday and was bom a twin, a girl being born 



