We would also impress upon those who are unable to help by writing, the duty
which the more heavily devolves upon them of furnishing means for printing and
circulating books already provided. We understand that Pfander's works are
nearly out of print; and we strongly recommend that five, or, if
possible, ten thousand copies of Mîzân-ul-Haqq, and two
thousand of the other treatises, be struck off in Urdoo, with a reasonable
proportion in Persian; for this, no doubt, extraordinary funds will be
required, but surely the Christian public, when awakened to a sense of the
magnitude and urgency of the object, will not be backward in furnishing them.
At all events, in thus prominently directing public attention to the subject,
we have discharged a duty towards one of the worthiest of men and one of the
noblest of causes. Of Pfander or his writings, many of our Indian residents
may probably have never heard. And if what has been written shall prove the
means of leading any of them so to esteem the author, and appreciate the value
of his works, as to stir them up to lend effective aid in circulating them
throughout the Mohammedan world, one great object which we had in view in this
review will have been gained. Dr. Pfander is an ordained minister of the
Church of England; and it is by the multiplication of such agents, that this
or any other branch of the Christian Church can expect to obtain a secure
footing and a permanent ascendancy among the hitherto unreclaimed realms of
heathenism.
