es. Blessed is he who is adorned with the
mantle of Uprightness and illumined with the light of Courtesy. He
who is endowed with Courtesy (or Reverence) is endowed with a
great station. It is hoped that this Wronged One, and all, will
attain to it, hold unto it and observe it. This is the Irrefutable
Command which hath flowed from the pen of the Greatest
Name.--Tablet of the World.

Again and again He repeats:--"Let all the nations of the world consort with
each other with joy and fragrance. Consort ye, O people, with the people
of all religions with joy and fragrance."

'Abdu'l-Baha says in a letter to the Baha'is of America:--

Beware! Beware! Lest ye offend any heart!
Beware! Beware! Lest ye hurt any soul!
Beware! Beware! Lest ye deal unkindly toward any person!
Beware! Beware! Lest ye be the cause of hopelessness to any
creature!

Should one become the cause of grief to any one heart, or of
despondency to any one soul, it were better to hide oneself in the
lowest depths of the earth than to walk upon the earth.

He teaches that as the flower is hidden in the bud, so a spirit from God
dwells in the heart of every man, no matter how hard and unlovely his
exterior. The true Baha'i will treat every man, therefore, as the gardener
tends a rare and beautiful plant. He knows that no impatient interference
on his part can open the bud into a blossom; only God's sunshine can do
that, therefore his aim is to bring that life-giving sunshine into all
darkened hearts and homes.

Again, 'Abdu'l-Baha says:--

Among the teachings of Baha'u'llah is one requiring man, under all
conditions and circumstances, to be forgiving, to love his enemy
and to consider an ill-wisher as a well-wisher. Not that one
should consider another as an enemy and then put up with him ...
and be forbearing toward him. This is hypocrisy and not real love.
Nay, rather, you must see your enemies as friends, your
ill-wishers as well-wishers and treat them accordingly. Your love
and kindness must be real ... not merely forbearance, for
forbearance, if not of the heart, is hypocrisy.

Such counsel appears unintelligible and self-contradictory until we
realize that while the outer carnal man may be a hater and ill-wisher,
there is in everyone an inner, spiritual nature which is the real man,
from whom only love and goodwill can proceed. It is to this r