October 13

The old centuries have passed and the carpet of hatred and struggle have rolled up, because this age has shone with the Luminous Lights, glorious bounties, admirable verses, apparent signs, lights which are dispersing the darkness - alleviating pain - conductive to unity and uprooting inharmony. 
- ‘Abdu’l-Baha  (From a talk, Lake Geneva, Switzerland, 1911; Star of the West, vol. 5, no. 10, September 8, 1914)