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| Local Bahá'í House of Worship in Battambang, Cambodia |
The Mashriqu'l-Adhkár and its accessories; “When these
institutions, college, hospital, hospice, and establishments for the
incurables, university for the study of higher sciences and giving postgraduate
courses, and other philanthropic buildings, are built, its doors will be open
to all the nations and all religions. There will be drawn absolutely no line of
demarcation. Its charities will be dispensed irrespective of colour and race.
Its gates will be flung wide to mankind; prejudice toward none, love for all.
The central building will be devoted to the purposes of prayer and worship.
Thus for the first time religion will become harmonised with science and
science will be the handmaid of religion, both showering their material and
spiritual gifts on all humanity. In this way the people will be lifted out of
the quagmires of slothfulness and bigotry.” - 'Abdu'l-Bahá (Star of the West,
vol. 21, no. 1, 1930; The Compilation of Compilations, vol. 3, Social and
Economic Development)
