His Highness Baha’u’llah dawned from the horizon of Persia
and spread to all parts of the world the rays of the Most Great Guidance. He
invited all to the Greatest Peace and gave advice to all, especially to
Napoleon the Third, who was at that time Emperor of France. For fifty years He
suffered everything in life so that by degrees the hearts became attracted to
the Most Great Peace. Now, praise be to God, this light is continually
spreading its benefits and ere long the Banner of the Most Great Peace shall
become unfurled. We will exert ourselves day and night so that the world of man
may become harmonized and the Sun of Truth and the Rays of Reality may
enlighten the East and die West.
- ‘Abdu’l-Baha (From a talk, November 24, 1911,
Paris, France; Star of the West, vol. 2, no. 18, February 7, 1912)
