f the Kingdom of God, which hath no beginning and will
have no end. At most, it is only renewed. At the beginning of each renewal
it commandeth no attention in the sight of the people, but when once
definitely established, it will daily advance and in its daily exaltation
will reach the supreme heavens.

For instance, consider the day of Christ, which was the day of the renewal
of the Kingdom of God. The people of the world attached no importance to
it and did not realize its significance to such an extent that the
sepulchre of Christ remained lost and unknown for three hundred years,
until the maidservant of God, Helen, the mother of Constantine arrived and
discovered the sacred spot.

My purpose in all this is to show how unobservant are the people of the
world and how ignorant, and on the day of the establishment of the
Kingdom, they remain heedless and negligent.

Erelong the power of the Kingdom will encompass all the world and then
they will be awakened and will cry and lament over those who were
oppressed and martyred, and will sigh and moan. Such is the nature of
people.

232: AS TO PRESIDENT WILSON, THE FOURTEEN PRINCIPLES ...

As to President Wilson, the fourteen principles which he hath enunciated
are mostly found in the teachings of Baha'u'llah and I therefore hope that
he will be confirmed and assisted. Now is the dawn of universal peace; my
hope is that its morn will fully break, converting the gloom of war, of
strife and of wrangling among men into the light of union, of harmony and
of affection.

233: O YE FAITHFUL FRIENDS, O YE SINCERE SERVANTS OF ...

O ye faithful friends, O ye sincere servants of Baha'u'llah! Now, in the
midwatches of the night, when eyes are closed in slumber and all have laid
their heads upon the couch of rest and deep sleep, 'Abdu'l-Baha is wakeful
within the precincts of the Hallowed Shrine and, in the ardour of his
invocation uttereth this, his prayer:

O Thou kind and loving Providence! The east is astir and the west surgeth
even as the eternal billows of the sea. The gentle breezes of holiness are
diffused and, from the Unseen Kingdom, the rays of the Orb of Truth shine
forth resplendent. The anthems of divine unity are being chanted and the
ensigns of celestial might are waving. The angelic Voice is raised and,
even as the roaring of the leviathan, soundeth the call to selflessness
and evanescence. The triumphal cry Ya Baha'u'l-Abha resoundeth on e