pourings of the cloud of mercy will not last. What then may be expected
from feeble weeds?...

193: IT IS DAYBREAK, AND FROM THE RISING-POINT OF THE ...

It is daybreak, and from the rising-point of the invisible realms of God,
the light of unity is dawning; and streaming and beating down from the
hidden world of the Kingdom of oneness there cometh a flood of abounding
grace. Glad tidings of the Kingdom are sounding from every side, and
wafting in from every direction are the first morning signs of the
exalting of God's Word and the upraising of His Cause. The word of unity
is spreading, the verses of oneness are being sung, the sea of God's
bestowals is tossing high its waves, and in plunging cataracts His
blessings are pouring down.

The confirmations of Him Who is the Ever-Forgiving have wrapped every
clime in light, the armies of the Company on high are rushing forward to
do battle at the side of the friends of the Lord and carry the day, the
fame of the Ancient Beauty--may my life be offered up for His loved
ones--resoundeth from pole to pole and word of the Holy Cause hath spread
to east and west.

All these things bring joy to the heart, and yet 'Abdu'l-Baha is sunk deep
in an ocean of grief, and pain and anguish have so affected my limbs and
members that utter weakness hath overtaken my whole body. Note ye that
when, singly and alone, with none to second me, I upraised the call of God
around the world, the peoples thereof rose up to oppose, to dispute, to
deny. On one side, it is clear how the religionists of the past have
mounted their attack at all points; again, there cometh word of the lying
mockers and the extreme limits to which they are going to pull out the
Divine Tree by the roots. What malicious and slanderous charges they bring
against the Ancient Beauty, what pamphlets filled with wicked and depraved
allegations they are busily writing and spreading against the Most Great
Name! And now, in deepest secrecy, they are straining every nerve to deal
this Faith a fearsome blow.

Again have the prideful devised all manner of plots and schemes to
completely disable the Cause of God and to erase the name of 'Abdu'l-Baha
from the Book of Life.

And now, added to all these tribulations, these miseries, these enemy
attacks, there hath arisen a dust cloud of ill will amongst the believers
themselves. This in spite of the fact that the Cause of the Ancient Beauty
is the very essence of love, the ve