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`Abdu'l-Bahá in London
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Pages 121-123
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A Loving Farewell Greeting.
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After leaving London and during his
two months stay in Paris, `Abdu'l-Bahá
frequently sent back messages to his
English friends, some of whom journeyed
over to take advantage of the conferences
there. On the eve of his departure for Alexandria,
he gave the following admonitory farewell to the
people of England and France.
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"Work," he said unceasingly, "for the day of
Universal Peace. Strive always that you may be
united. Kindness and love in the path of service
must be your means.
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"I bid a loving farewell to the people of France
and England. I am very much pleased with them.
I counsel them that they may day by day
strengthen the bond of love and amity to this
end,--that they may become the sympathetic
embodiment of one nation.--That they may
extend themselves to a Universal Brotherhood to
guard and protect the interests and rights of all
the nations of the East,--that they may unfurl the
Divine Banner of justice,--that they may treat
each nation as a family composed of the
individual children of God and may know that
before the sight of God the rights of all are equal.
For all of us are the children of one Father. God is
at peace with all his children; why should they
engage in strife and warfare among themselves?
God is showering down kindness; why should the
inhabitants of this world exchange unkindness
and cruelty?"
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"I will pray for you that you may be illumined
with the Light of the Eternal."
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