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Ahmad of Qadian" (vol. xvii, p. 143) ; for the N.W. Provinces 

 and Oudh, " nine hundred and thirty-one persons returned their 

 sect as Ahmadiyyah" (vol. xvi, p. 96); and for the Bombay 

 Presidency the members of the Ahmadiyyah sect of Musalmans 

 "appear to number over 10,000 persons" (vol. ix, p. 69). It 

 is, quite likely, judging from the returns in the Bombay Presi- 

 dency, that in the Punjab and N.W. Provinces many followers 

 of the Mirza QadianI were entered simply as Muhammadans 

 and not as members of the Ahmadiyyah. The Mirza Ghulam 

 Ahmad claims himself to have at the present time " more than 

 200,000 followers " (Revieiv of Religions, September, 1904, 

 p. 345). This is probably a great exaggeration. Nevertheless, 

 it is pretty clear that the Mirza QadianI has some tens of thou- 

 sands of followers in all India. So far as is known to the 

 writer of this paper, the Mirza's following comes entirely from the 

 ranks of Islam. It is a disintegrating movement within the 

 bounds of Muhammadan orthodoxy. 



As regards methods of propagation the Society is marked by 

 great aggressiveness. The press is fully used, and a constant 

 stream of books, pamphlets, handbills, etc., pour forth from the 

 Society's publishing house at Qadian. Many of the pamphlets 

 and handbills in English are sent to the leading newspapers all 

 over the world. It is intended that the village of Qadian 

 should also be the educational centre of the movement. The 

 Mirza Sahib's High School at Qadian has already blossomed 

 out into a secondary college, teaching up to the first arts. It is 

 worthy of note that the only students in the Panjab who have 

 taken Hebrew for a university examination have come from 

 Qadian. This year two appeared in Hebrew for the entrance 

 examination and one for the intermediate. 



The vigour and enthusiasm with which the Messiah of 

 Qadian, in season and out of season, publishes his own name 

 and sounds forth his own praises, puts us to shame whose holy 

 mission it is to make known the name of Jesus Christ, the true 

 Messiah and Saviour of the world. And finally, the Mirza 

 Qadiani's own impressive diagnosis of the moral and spiritual 

 evils of the day, both in Islam and in Christianity, ought to 

 help to constrain us, not indeed to give thanks that the 

 promised deliverer has already come and is in our midst, but 

 rather to lift our eyes with longing and prayer to God that 

 soon, whether through a personal appearing in glory to rule 

 the earth in righteousness, or through a widespread and 

 powerful outpouring of His Spirit, the Christ of God may 

 come. 



