to relieve those who were in pain and trouble.
...... But the services which I recall in my
hours of meditation as having been of my best
are of another kind, such as looking after the
sick or actually nursing them at times. Be-
sides my father and mother whom I nursed
in their illness, I have had the privilege of tend-
ing some friends when their condition was
serious........While in London I had the
opportunity of doing some little service of
this kind to a dear friend after a dangerous
operation at Guy's hospital. It was only a duty
of love but it was appreciated by my father
in a letter conveying the thanks of his old
friend, Nawab Imad-ul-Mulk,—which is of
greater value to me than my Cambridge deg-
rees and my titles. And even ,now I have
the satisfaction of feeling that I am of service
to those who need friendly help/'
Here is another note, with an undertone
of sadness in it :
" Whatever work I did as an official and
whatever influence I exercised over men's
minds, may be said to be dead by now, for I
cannot trace any good effects of it in the prac-
tice of those who succeeded me."
" My pertinacity in exhorting people to live
a true and righteous life, may be unwelcome to
many," he once said to me," but I have to do this
as a Muslim when I see them living a false life
of vain show and senseless imitation and gliding
into pleasant vices under the delusion that they