The Christian Teaching was illumined by the Divine Sun of
Truth, therefore its followers were taught to love all men as brothers to fear
nothing, not even death! To love their neighbours as themselves, and to forget
their own selfish interests in striving for the greater good of humanity. The
grand aim of the religion of Christ was to draw the hearts of all men nearer to
God’s effulgent Truth.
If the followers of the Lord Christ had continued to follow
out these principles with steadfast faithfulness, there would have been no need
for a renewal of the Christian Message, no necessity for a re-awakening of His
people, for a great and glorious civilization would now be ruling the world and
the Kingdom of Heaven would have come on earth.
But instead of this, what has taken place! Men turned away
their faces from following the divinely illuminated precepts of their Master,
and winter fell upon the hearts of men.
(‘Abdu’l-Baha, from a talk, Paris,
October 22, 1911, ‘Paris Talks’)
