Now is the time for the lovers of God to raise high the
banners of unity, to intone, in the assemblages of the world, the verses of
friendship and love and to demonstrate to all that the grace of God is one.
Thus will the tabernacles of holiness be upraised on the summits of the earth,
gathering all peoples into the protective shadow of the Word of Oneness. This
great bounty will dawn over the world at the time when the lovers of God shall
arise to carry out His Teachings, and to scatter far and wide the fresh, sweet
scents of universal love. (‘Abdu’l-Baha, ‘Selections from the Writings of
‘Abdu’l-Baha’)
