rious purposes. The
greatness of conception and depth of spirituality revealed in these
utterances must impress every thoughtful student, but only by making their
use a regular and important part of one's daily life can their
significance be fully appreciated and their power for good realized.
Unfortunately, considerations of space prevent our giving more than a very
few short specimens of these prayers. For further examples the reader must
be referred to other works.

O my Lord! Make Thy beauty to be my food, and Thy presence my
drink, and Thy pleasure my hope, and praise of Thee my action, and
remembrance of Thee my companion, and the power of Thy sovereignty
my succorer, and Thy habitation my home, and my dwelling-place the
seat Thou hast sanctified from the limitations imposed upon them
who are shut out as by a veil from Thee.

Thou art, verily, the Almighty, the All-Glorious, the Most
Powerful.--BAHA'U'LLAH.

I bear witness, O my God, that Thou hast created Me to know Thee
and to worship Thee. I testify, at this moment, to my
powerlessness and to Thy might, to my poverty and to Thy wealth.

There is none other God but Thee, the Help in Peril, the
Self-Subsisting.--BAHA'U'LLAH.

O my God! O my God! Unite the hearts of Thy servants and reveal to
them Thy great purpose. May they follow Thy commandments and abide
in Thy law. Help them, O God, in their endeavor, and grant them
strength to serve Thee. O God! leave them not to themselves, but
guide their steps by the light of knowledge, and cheer their
hearts by Thy love. Verily, Thou art their Helper and their
Lord.--BAHA'U'LLAH.

O Thou kind Lord! Thou has created all humanity from the same
stock. Thou hast decreed that all shall belong to the same
household. In Thy Holy Presence they are all Thy servants, and all
mankind are sheltered beneath Thy Tabernacle; all have gathered
together at Thy Table of Bounty; all are illumined through the
light of Thy Providence.

O God! Thou art kind to all, Thou hast provided for all, dost
shelter all, conferrest life upon all, Thou hast endowed each and
all with talents and faculties, and all are submerged in the Ocean
of Thy Mercy.

O Thou kind Lord! United all. Let the religions agree and make the
nations one, so that they may see each other as one family and the
whole earth