The Promised Day Is Come

"O kings of Christendom! Heard ye not the saying of Jesus, the Spirit of God, 'I go away, and come again unto you'? Wherefore, then, did ye fail, when He did come again unto you...

Dear friends! For the trials which have afflicted the Faith of Baha'u'llah a responsibility appalling and inescapable rests upon those into whose hands the reins of civil and ec...

In the Kitab-i-Aqdas, His Most Holy Book, Baha'u'llah thus addresses the German Emperor, William I: "Say: O King of Berlin! Give ear unto the Voice calling from this manifest Te...

"O concourse of divines! Fling away idle fancies and imaginings, and turn, then, towards the Horizon of Certitude. I swear by God! All that ye possess will profit you not, neith...

Such, in their bare outline, were the awful evidences of that retributive justice which so tragically afflicted 'Abdu'l-'Aziz, his successors, his throne and his dynasty. What o...

Dear friends! The decline in the fortunes of the crowned wielders of temporal power has been paralleled by a no less startling deterioration in the influence exercised by the wo...

And moreover, in the Lawh-i-Ra'is, Baha'u'llah, recalling His conversation with the Turkish officer charged with the task of enforcing His banishment to the fortress-town of Akk...

The pomp and pageantry of these princes of the church of Islam has already died out. Their fanatical outcries, their clamorous invocations, their noisy demonstrations, are still...

"Say: O concourse of monks! Seclude not yourselves in churches and cloisters. Come forth by My leave, and occupy yourselves with that which will profit your souls and the souls...

Well might the Sovereign Pontiff recall the reign of the most powerful among his predecessors, Innocent III who, during the eighteen years of his pontificate, raised and deposed...

Dear friends! I have, in the preceding pages, attempted to represent this world-afflicting ordeal that has laid its grip upon mankind as primarily a judgment of God pronounced a...

"The cruelties inflicted by My oppressors," He Himself in His anguish has cried out, "have bowed Me down, and turned My hair white. Shouldst thou present thyself before My thron...

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"Behold," He further explains, "how its light is now dawning upon the world's darkened horizon. The first candle is unity in the political realm, the early glimmerings of which...