Three of these strange movements let us look at as new evidence of the power of Christ’s personality in India.  All three occur in still another province than those named, the Punjab, a province sui generis in many ways.  Within a generation past, at least two men have arisen, either claiming to be Christ Himself come again, or a Messiah superior to Him.  A third received a vision of “Jesus God,” and proclaimed Him, wherever he went, as an object of worship.  Of the first of the three leaders, Sir Alfred Lyall tells us, one Hakim Singh, “who listened to missionaries until he not only accepted the whole Christian dogma, but conceived himself to be the second embodiment [of Christ], and proclaimed himself as such and summoned the missionaries to acknowledge him.”  It sounds much like blasphemy, or mere lunacy; but in India one learns not to be shocked at what in Europe would be rankest blasphemy; the intention must decide the innocence or the offence.  Hakim Singh “professed to work miracles, preached pure morality, but also venerated the cow,”—­strange chequer of Hindu and Christian ideas.[101] The second case is the better known one of Mirz[=a] Ghol[=a]m Ahmad, of Q[=a]di[=a]n, who sets up a claim to be “the Similitude of the Messiah” and “the Messiah of the Twentieth Century.”  As his name shows, he is a Mahomedan, but the assumption of the name “Messiah” also shows that it is in Christ’s place he declares himself to stand.  At the same time, his appeal is to his fellow-Mahomedans; for he explains that as Jesus was the Messiah of Moses, he himself is the Messiah of Mahomed.  His superiority to Christ, he expressly declares.  “I shall be guilty of concealing the truth,” he says in his English monthly, the Review of Religions, of May 1902, “if I do not assert that the prophecies which God Almighty has granted me are of a far better quality in clearness, force, and truth than the ambiguous predictions of Jesus....  But notwithstanding all this superiority, I cannot assert Divinity or Sonship of God.”  He claims “to have been sent by God to reform the true religion of God, now corrupted by Jews, Christians, and Mahomedans.”  Doubly blasphemous as his claims sound in the ears of orthodox Mahomedans, who reckon both Christ and Mahomed as prophets, his sect is now estimated to number at least 10,000, including many educated Mahomedans.  Whatever its fate—­a mere comet or a new planet in the Indian sky—­it indicates the religious stirring of educated India in another province, and the prominence of Christ’s personality therein.  Mirz[=a] Ghol[=a]m Ahmad himself recommends the reading of the Gospels.  As to Christ’s death, Mirz[=a] Ghol[=a]m Ahmad has a theory of his own.  The Koran declares, according to Mahomedan expositors, that it was not Christ who suffered on the cross, but another in His likeness.  Mirz[=a] Ghol[=a]m Ahmad teaches that Jesus was crucified but did not die, that He was restored to life by His disciples and sent out of the country, whence He travelled East until He reached Thibet, eventually arriving at Cashmere, where He died, His tomb being located in the city of Srinagar.[102] According to the latest report of this reincarnation, he now claims to be at once Krishna come again for Hindus, Mahomed for Mahomedans, and Christ for Christians.