ty increaseth their charm, and addeth unto their beauty.
How unpleasing to the eye if all the flowers and plants, the leaves and
blossoms, the fruits, the branches and the trees of that garden were all
of the same shape and color! Diversity of hues, form and shape, enricheth
and adorneth the garden, and heighteneth the effect thereof. In like
manner, when divers shades of thought, temperament and character, are
brought together under the power and influence of one central agency, the
beauty and glory of human perfection will be revealed and made manifest.
Naught but the celestial potency of the Word of God, which ruleth and
transcendeth the realities of all things, is capable of harmonizing the
divergent thoughts, sentiments, ideas, and convictions of the children of
men.
6 Therefore, the believers of God throughout all the republics of America,
through the divine power, must become the cause of the promotion of
heavenly teachings and the establishment of the oneness of humanity. Every
one of the important souls must arise, blowing over all parts of America
the breath of life, conferring upon the people a new spirit, baptizing
them with the fire of the love of God, the water of life, and the breaths
of the Holy Spirit so that the second birth may become realized. For it is
written in the Gospel: "That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that
which is born of the Spirit is spirit."(22)
7 Therefore, O ye believers of God in the United States and Canada! Select
ye important personages, or else they by themselves, becoming severed from
rest and composure of the world, may arise and travel throughout Alaska,
the republic of Mexico, and south of Mexico in the Central American
republics, such as Guatemala, Honduras, Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica,
Panama and Belize; and through the great South American republics, such as
Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, Brazil, French Guiana, Dutch Guiana, British
Guiana, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and Chile; also in the group of
the West Indies islands, such as Cuba, Haiti, Puerto Rico, Jamaica and
Santo Domingo, and the group of islands of the Lesser Antilles, the
Islands of Bahama and the Islands of Bermuda; likewise to the islands to
the east, west and north of South America, such as Trinidad, Falkland
Islands, Galapagos Islands, Juan Fernandez and Tobago. Visit ye especially
the city of Bahia, on the eastern shore of Brazil. Because in the past
years this city was christened w
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