Thy mission in America for the present is this: Thou must
travel as far as possible to every part and pass through cities and towns,
summoning everyone to the Beauty of Abha, raising the Call of the Kingdom and
proclaiming at the top of thy voice:
"A hundred thousand glad-tidings be upon ye that the
Sun of the Reality of the Beauty of Abha hath shone forth from the Horizon of
the Contingent Being and hath illumined the regions with the lights of the Most
Great Guidance. The realities of the Old Testament and the Gospel are already
fulfilled and the Mysteries of the Heavenly Books have become manifest. This is
the century of the Merciful One and the Period of Joy and Gladness. O ye heedless
ones, become mindful! O ye sleeping ones, be awakened! O ye blind ones, become
seeing! O ye deaf ones, become hearing! O ye dumb ones, become speakers! O ye
dead ones, become living! O ye deprived ones, take a portion! This is the
effulgence of the Merciful and the moving of the Depthless Sea. This is the
outpouring of the wonderful and new springtime and the falling of the showers
of the Bounty of the Most Great Lord!"
This is thy mission.
(Signed) 'Abdu'l-Bahá Abbas
(Star of the West, vol. 2, no. 6, June 24, 1911)
