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JOH-N ALEXANDER DOWIEHAS A RIVAL IN INDIAMirza, Ghulam Ahmad, of Qudiab, 'Punjab, India, insists that John Alexander Dowie, of Zion, I1L, U. S. A., is notup to date.AHMAD.Allah is good and Mahomet is prophet truly, but Mirza Ghulam Ahmad is the Messiah! So claims Mirza Ghulam that each should pray that the other perish, and Mirzah is lost in wonderment that the overseer of Zion has not toed the scratch. He expresses his amazement in an article just published in the Review of Religions,which is printed on occasions at Gur-•daspur, India-That the tempestuous Dr. Dowie nhali know that Mirza Ghulam Ahmad ia no common man, is not a frail human forsooth, the new Messiah writes: , 4‘Dr. Dowie should further bear in mind that this challenge does not proceed from an ordinary Mohammedan. I am the very Messiah, the promised one, for whom he is so anxiously waiting. Between Dr. Dowle’s position t land mine the difference is this, that Dowie fixes the appearance of the Mes-.-tfdah within the next twenty-five years, T,wMIe I gave him the glad tidings that rihe .Messiah has already appeared. I that Messiah, and Almighty God shown numerous signs from earth *te well as from heaven in my support. My following, which already claims a hundred thousand souls, is making a Tpid progress. The proof that Dr. Dowie furnishes in support of his extravagant claims is the very height of •bsurdity. He claims to have healed .hundreds of sick men. But why did hii healing power fail In the case of feds own beloved daughter, where It should have been exercised in the high-4fft degree?”Romance of thp papahy.iIitvcIc16
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Waterloo Press
Waterloo, Indiana, US
Thu, Nov 05, 1903
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