ot take into consideration
your own aptitudes and capacities, but fix your gaze on the consummate
bounty, the divine bestowal and the power of the Holy Spirit--the power
that converteth the drop into a sea and the star into a sun.

Praise be to God, the hosts of the Supreme Concourse secure the victory
and the power of the Kingdom is ready to assist and to support. Should ye
at every instant unloosen the tongue in thanksgiving and gratitude, ye
would not be able to discharge yourselves of the obligation of gratitude
for these bestowals.

Consider: eminent personages whose fame hath spread all over the world
shall, erelong, fade into utter nothingness as the result of their
deprivation of this heavenly bounty; no name and no fame shall they leave
behind, and of them no fruit and trace shall survive. But as the
effulgences of the Sun of Truth have dawned forth upon you and ye have
attained everlasting life, ye shall shine and sparkle forevermore from the
horizon of existence.

Peter was a fisherman and Mary Magdalene a peasant, but as they were
specially favoured with the blessings of Christ, the horizon of their
faith became illumined, and down to the present day they are shining from
the horizon of everlasting glory. In this station, merit and capacity are
not to be considered; nay rather, the resplendent rays of the Sun of
Truth, which have illumined these mirrors, must be taken into account.

Ye are inviting me to America. I am likewise longing to gaze upon those
illumined faces and converse and associate with those true friends. But
the magnetic power which shall draw me to those shores is the union and
harmony of the friends, their behaviour and conduct in accordance with the
teachings of God and the firmness of all in the Covenant and the
Testament.

O Divine Providence! This assemblage is composed of Thy friends who are
attracted to Thy beauty and are set ablaze by the fire of Thy love. Turn
these souls into heavenly angels, resuscitate them through the breath of
Thy Holy Spirit, grant them eloquent tongues and resolute hearts, bestow
upon them heavenly power and merciful susceptibilities, cause them to
become the promulgators of the oneness of mankind and the cause of love
and concord in the world of humanity, so that the perilous darkness of
ignorant prejudice may vanish through the light of the Sun of Truth, this
dreary world may become illumined, this material realm may absorb the rays
of the world of spi