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 have held to this title, and some years ago when wandering in the bazaars of Lahore I saw an old Ford bearing in bold lettering on one of the doors the arresting title, Khalif at-ul-Masih, II, which being interpreted meant that the old Ford was the property of "The Second Successor to the Messiah" of Qadian!

All the old passion for the renewing of Islam and the revival of its ancient glory in the midst of this modern world began to burn in Mirza Ghulam Ahmad. He recalled how the sun never sets on the Moslem crescent flag; how Islam is the mightiest religion of the world next to Christianity; and how "it holds a world empire of human hearts in its grasp." He thought of the sixty thousand or more who annually come together from every nation under heaven to meet around the Kaaba at Mecca in celebration of the pilgrimage, all one in a common brotherhood and in the use of a common ritual in the Arabic tongue. He pictured himself as the one who, under the guidance of Allah, would arouse the Moslem world to a great revival of Islam that would bring all peoples of the world under the red crescent banner. He remembered how the Prophet Mohammed had sent out letters to the nations of the world inviting them to accept Islam. He, too, would challenge the world! He would set the whole world to thinking about Islam and would convince all the non-Moslem peoples that Islam was the perfect religion, superior to all others.

Accordingly he and his followers organized an extensive movement with the avowed purposes of spreading