. North India. to touch my knees, but my soul foundno rest. He then began to leave off the Mus-sulman routine of prayer, and looked upon allreligions as vanity, but whenever the thought ofdeath came upon him his restlessness of soulwas terrible, and he would cry to GOD fordeliverance. Some years later he heard of the conversion,through the instrumentality of Nehemiah Goreh,of his old friend Maulvi Safdar Ali, and he was con-founded and perplexed. He determined to bringhim back from Christianity, and for this purposeread for the first time the Gospel story. TheSermon on the Mount held and fasci
. North India. to touch my knees, but my soul foundno rest. He then began to leave off the Mus-sulman routine of prayer, and looked upon allreligions as vanity, but whenever the thought ofdeath came upon him his restlessness of soulwas terrible, and he would cry to GOD fordeliverance. Some years later he heard of the conversion,through the instrumentality of Nehemiah Goreh,of his old friend Maulvi Safdar Ali, and he was con-founded and perplexed. He determined to bringhim back from Christianity, and for this purposeread for the first time the Gospel story. TheSermon on the Mount held and fascinated could not break away from its influence : itseemed speaking to his very soul. For days andnights in great agitation he continued readinguntil he became wholly convinced that salvationfrom sin was through JesuS CHRIST alone, andthat He was the only perfect moral Teacher. Hewent to Amritsar and was baptized, and beganat once a life of patient, earnest, scholarly work indefence of the Christian Dr. Imad ud Din. To face page 123. The Panjab and Islam 123 The fierceness of the opposition he encoun-tered, and his own coura^^eous spirit, may bejud<^ed from his answer to a Chitral chieftain whohad threatened to kill him with his own hands. Tell the chieftain, he replied, * that if he wereto kill me, I would gladly perish, and from myspilt blood twenty Imad ud Dins (Pillars of Faith)would arise to carry forward the Christian re-ligion. Once in later life he met Nehemiah Goreh, towhom he indirectly owed his conversion. Themarks of suffering and search for truth were onboth their faces, and they spoke far into thenight about the glorious Faith they had found (so Padre Nehemiah relates) theirChurch views fundamentally the same, though theMaulvi remained, in the outward expression ofreligion, more puritan to the end than the ex-Brahman Pandit. As we read Dr. Imad ud Dins controversialand apologetic writings to-day we feel we arein the presence of one wh
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