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 new springtime and the
falling of the showers of the Bounty of the Most Great Lord!
This is thy mission.
‘Abdu’l-Baha Abbas
(Star of the West, vol. 7, no. 1, March 21, 1916)
