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"O ye friends of Abdul-Baha!..."
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O ye
[To the Montreal (Canada) assembly.]
friends of Abdul-Baha!
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His honor Mr. ... wrote a letter and in
that letter he mentioned your names, asking divine
favor on your behalf. While reading your names I
opened my tongue in thanksgiving in the Threshold of
Oneness, that he hath granted such favor and bestowed
such providence. He guided the souls and pointed out
to them the entrance to the Kingdom. Such confirmation
deserveth thanks and praise, and such guidance is
the most great bounty of His Highness the One.
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Likewise, you must be engaged day and night, with
all your soul and heart, in thanksgiving and the glorification
of His Highness the Desired One who hath created
you in such a glorious period, made you the manifestors
of guidance in the Day of the Lord, imparted to you
the insight and enkindled your souls and spirits with
the fire of love. Today the grandeur, the majesty, the
splendor and the magnitude of this station is not clear
and manifest because it is the time of seed-sowing and
the beginning of the planting of trees in the orchard
of the Merciful One. When that seed is grown and
the tree reacheth the time of its fruition, then many
harvests shall be gathered and all regions and kingdoms
shall be adorned with its blossoms and fruits.
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Ere long the Adored One of this providence will
become the Beloved of the assemblages of the world
and the rays of the Sun of Truth will illumine every
house, every place and corner. At that time the greatness
and superiority of the friends of God will become
evident and demonstrated.
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Consider ye! In the day of His Highness Christ,
the grandeur and majesty of their Holiness the Apostles,
was not known. After three-hundred years the loftiness
of the station and the exaltation of their attainment
became manifest. Ere long the result of the
deeds in this cycle of Baha'o'llah will appear and
every one of the friends and the maid-servants will be
crowned with a diadem whose splendid gems will
radiate brilliancy and effulgence throughout cycles and
ages.
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Therefore, O ye servants of God and the maid-servants
of the Merciful One, do ye not rest for one
moment! Do ye not seek any composure! Do ye not
wish for any rest and ease! Endeavor and make ye an
effort with all your heart and soul to spread the fragrances
of Paradise, to raise the eternal melody of
the Kingdom of Abha, to establish the gathering of
fellowship, to become assisted with the confirmations of
the Holy Spirit; to clothe the temple of existence with
a new garment; to bestow eternal life upon the reality
of souls; to become a cause of the civilization of the
human world; to characterize the bloodthirsty animals
with the heavenly attributes and divine commemorations;
to pacify the world with peace and salvation,
and to adorn man with the favors of His Highness
the Merciful One; that perchance ignorance, animosity
and strangeness may be removed entirely from among
the denizens of the world, and the Banner of Reconciliation,
Freedom, Nobleness and Oneness be hoisted;
for the chains of existence contain countless links, each
connected with the other. This connection is the cause
of the appearance of the invisible powers in the world
of the visible.
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O ye real friends! Make ye an effort that this universe
may become another universe and this darkened world
find a ray of the Sun of Truth and become luminous
and refulgent.
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I entreat God that this favor may be realized and
this unending outpouring become manifest and apparent,
and the friends of God be confirmed by every
bounty.
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