the Heart of Mt. Paran --from
this conflagration shall appear dazzling lights, which shall shine upon
all regions.

"Consider the first century of the time of Christ--glory be unto Him! --and
the beginning of His Cause. In that time no one but a certain few persons
believed in Him; and the great one among them was Peter the disciple, who,
through the burning of the fire of test and persecution, was in great fear
and denied Christ three times; then the Jews who were scoffing,
persecuting, deriding and laughing at Him, despised Him as through He were
a thief, a murderer, or a villain, and committed against Him that which
made the hearts lament, distressed the minds, caused tears to flow and the
foundations of existence to tremble and shake! They thought that they had
quenched the Fire which flamed in the tree of Christian certainty; nay,
verily, that Lamp hath diffused its dazzling rays unto the Supreme Height
and that Fire hath burned until it kindled the hearts of the righteous!"

"Then consider this day, and the day of His existence among those
people--how they crowned Him with a diadem of thorns and now how thousands
of people adorn their heads in His name, with the Most Brilliant Gem,
glittering to the sight! Woe, woe unto the like of such heedless people!
Alas for the souls, because of what they have committed against the Word
of God in the day of His Appearance--and today they worship the dust which
the feet of His Beloved have trod! Such is the condition of the people.
Abandon them and let them play until they fall in abasement and loss!

"But as to you, O ye beloved of God, let your breasts be dilated with joy
for that by reason of which ye have attained unto the Day of God, entered
the Kingdom of God, and tasted the food of Knowledge which hath descended
from Heaven!"

"O thou who art advancing toward the Kingdom of God!..."

O thou who art advancing toward the Kingdom of God!

Thy letter was read; its contents had bearing upon Guidance. Praise be to
God! thou possessed a perceiving eye and an attentive ear! Now is the time
for thee to give thanks to God with an expressive tongue; to appreciate
this bounty.

Consider in what a great age thou hast stepped into the world of existence
and under the shadow of what an Ensign of Guidance thou wert sheltered and
attained the hope and greatest desire of the saints!

If thou dost arise to comply with that which is deemed worthy of this
favor and is a dut