O ye governments of the world! Be ye pitiful towards
mankind! O ye nation is of the earth, behold ye the battlefields of slaughter
and carnage [WWI]; O ye sages of humanity, investigate sympathetically the
conditions of the oppressed; ye philosophers of the West, study profoundly the
causes that led to this gigantic unparalleled struggle; O ye wise leaders of
the globe, reflect deeply so that ye may find an antidote for the suppression
of this chronic, devastating disease; O ye individuals of humanity, find ye
means for the stoppage of this wholesale murder and bloodshed. Now is the
appointed time! Now is the opportune time! Arise ye, shew ye an effort, put ye
forward an extraordinary power, and unfurl ye the Flag of Universal Peace and
dam the resistible fury of this raging torrent which is wreaking havoc and ruin
everywhere!
- ‘Abdu’l-Baha (From a Tablet
(Star of the West, vol. 5, no. 16, December 31, 1914)
