The Review of Religions. July 1923

And it could not be otherwise since the time appointed in the promise has already arrived and all the signs have come to pass and like a hurricane the evil influence of the Cross has for a long time been spreading over the world and a number of the followers of Islam have turned renegades and not a home has been left unaffected by the taint of Christianity and the light of Islam has faded from [...] The present age by its condition has borne witness that the time is ripe for the advent of the Messiah for the Cross is in the ascendant and errors have multiplied and the exponents of Christianity by their industry and organization1923.1 THE REVIEW OF RELIGIONS. [...] The first sign I would mention is that God has sent me in the beginning of this century of the Muslim era when the Cross has obtained ascendancy and its partisans are most active and propering in their enterprise and have secured a strong hold upon the minds of the masses and have thrown the door of apostasy wide open to all the mean minded and by the inducement of a life of enjoyment captured [...] But the forms in which the Messianic stories are current among the Musalmans and which find apparent countenance in some of the reported sayings of the Holy Prophet (peace be upon him) are in the nature of the language of vision. [...] Islam says that man has been created in the " best of forms " and the purpose of creation is the worship of God and the fulfilling of His will as evidenced in the work as well as the word of God.