he hands.

O thou pure and spiritual one! Turn thou toward God with thy heart
beating with His love, devoted to His praise, gazing towards His
Kingdom and seeking help from His Holy Spirit in a state of
ecstasy, rapture, love, yearning, joy and fragrance. God will
assist thee, through a spirit from His Presence, to heal sickness
and disease.

Continue in healing hearts and bodies and seek healing for sick
persons by turning unto the Supreme Kingdom and by setting the
heart upon obtaining healing through the power of the Greatest
Name and by the spirit of the Love of God.

How All Can Help

The work of healing the sick, however, is a matter that concerns not the
patient and the practitioner only, but everyone. All must help, by
sympathy and service, by right living and right thinking, and especially
by prayer, for of all remedies prayer is the most potent. "Supplication
and prayer on behalf of others," says 'Abdu'l-Baha, "will surely be
effective." The friends of the patient have a special responsibility, for
their influence, either for good or ill, is most direct and powerful. In
how many cases of sickness the issue depends mainly on the ministrations
of parents, friends or neighbors of the helpless sufferer!

Even the members of the community at large have an influence in every case
of sickness. In individual cases that influence may not appear great, yet
in the mass the effect is potent. Everyone is affected by the social
"atmosphere" in which he lives, by the general prevalence of faith or
materialism, of virtue or vice, of cheerfulness of depression; and each
individual has his share in determining the state of that social
"atmosphere." It may not be possible for everyone, in the present state of
the world, to attain to perfect health, but it is possible for everyone to
become a "willing channel" for the health-giving power of the Holy Spirit
and thus to exert a healing, helpful influence both on his own body and on
all with whom he comes in contact.

Few duties are impressed on Baha'is more repeatedly and emphatically than
that of healing the sick, and many beautiful prayers for healing have been
revealed by both Baha'u'llah and 'Abdu'l-Baha.

The Golden Age

Baha'u'llah gives the assurance that, through harmonious cooperation of
patients, healers and the community in general, and by appropriate use of
the various means to health, material, mental