His holiness Baha’u’llah, fifty years ago spread broadcast
His great Movement, proclaimed the benefits of international peace. This took
place at a time when the thought was not in the minds of men, nor the words
upon the tongues of the people. At the time He summoned people from all parts
of the Orient. He addressed letters to the sovereigns of Europe, setting forth
the results to accrue from the establishment of universal peace. He invited all
to participate in a worlds arbitral court of justice, to be composed of
representatives of every government in the world, the delegates thereto to be
chosen and ratified by the governments. Thereto would be referred disputes
between nations for settlement. In case any government or nation should prove
rebellions concerning any decision of the court, the other nations should
coalesce to force it into obedience.
- ‘Abdu’l-Baha (From a Tablet, Star of the
West, vol. 5, no. 11, September 27, 1914)
