ing the hearts of hundreds of men and women!

How many widows mourn their husbands, how many stories of savage cruelty
do we hear! How many little orphaned children are crying for their dead
fathers, how many women are weeping for their slain sons!

There is nothing so heart-breaking and terrible as an outburst of human
savagery!

I charge you all that each one of you concentrate all the thoughts of your
heart on love and unity. When a thought of war comes, oppose it by a
stronger thought of peace. A thought of hatred must be destroyed by a more
powerful thought of love. Thoughts of war bring destruction to all
harmony, well-being, restfulness and content.

Thoughts of love are constructive of brotherhood, peace, friendship, and
happiness.

When soldiers of the world draw their swords to kill, soldiers of God
clasp each other's hands! So may all the savagery of man disappear by the
Mercy of God, working through the pure in heart and the sincere of soul.
Do not think the peace of the world an ideal impossible to attain!

Nothing is impossible to the Divine Benevolence of God.

If you desire with all your heart, friendship with every race on earth,
your thought, spiritual and positive, will spread; it will become the
desire of others, growing stronger and stronger, until it reaches the
minds of all men.

Do not despair! Work steadily. Sincerity and love will conquer hate. How
many seemingly impossible events are coming to pass in these days! Set
your faces steadily towards the Light of the World. Show love to all;
'Love is the breath of the Holy Spirit in the heart of Man'. Take courage!
God never forsakes His children who strive and work and pray! Let your
hearts be filled with the strenuous desire that tranquillity and harmony
may encircle all this warring world. So will success crown your efforts,
and with the universal brotherhood will come the Kingdom of God in peace
and goodwill.

In this room today are members of many races, French, American, English,
German, Italian, brothers and sisters meeting in friendship and harmony!
Let this gathering be a foreshadowing of what will, in very truth, take
place in this world, when every child of God realizes that they are leaves
of one tree, flowers in one garden, drops in one ocean, and sons and
daughters of one Father, whose name is love!

THE SUN OF TRUTH

October 22nd

'Abdu'l-Baha said:

It is a lovely day, the sun shines brightly upon the earth, g