Your letter also betokened your unity and the closeness of
your hearts. It is my hope that the west, through the boundless grace that God
is pouring down in this new era, will become the east, the dawning-point of the
Sun of Truth, and western believers the daysprings of light, and manifestors of
the signs of God; that they will be guarded from the doubts of the heedless and
will stay firm and unmoveable in the Covenant and Testament; that they will
toil by day and by night until they awaken those who sleep, and make mindful
those who are unaware, and bring in the outcast to be intimates of the inner
circle, and bestow upon the destitute their portion of eternal grace. Let them
be heralds of the Kingdom, and call out to the denizens of this nether world, and
summon them to enter the realm on high.
- ‘Abdu’l-Baha (‘Seletions from the
Writings of ‘Abdu’l-Baha’)
