I find England awake; there is spiritual life here. But your
poor are so very poor! This should not be. On the one hand you have wealth, and
great luxury; on the other hand, men and women are living in the extremities of
hunger and want. This great contrast of life is one of the blots on the
civilization of this enlightened age.
You must turn attention more earnestly to the betterment of
the conditions of the poor. Do not be satisfied until each one with whom you
are concerned is to you as a member of your family. Regard each one either as a
father, or as a brother, or as a sister, or as a mother, or as a child. If you
can attain to this, your difficulties will vanish, you will know what to do.
This is the teaching of Bahá’u’lláh.
- ‘Abdu’l-Baha (Words of ‘Abdu’l-Baha;
‘Abdu’l-Baha in London’)
