It is my dearest hope that you may all become a blessing to
others, that you may give sight to the spiritually blind, hearing to the
spiritually deaf and life to those who are dead in sin. May you help those sunk
in materiality to realize their Divine son-ship, and encourage them to arise
and be worthy of their birthright; so that by your endeavour the world of
humanity may become the Kingdom of God and of His elect.
- ‘Abdu’l-Baha (From a
talk, November 19, 1911, Paris; ‘Paris Talks’)
