ause and the organic unity of its institutions.

Let anyone who feels the urge among the participators in this crusade,
which embraces all the races, all the republics, classes and denominations
of the entire Western Hemisphere, arise, and, circumstances permitting,
direct in particular the attention, and win eventually the unqualified
adherence, of the Negro, the Indian, the Eskimo, and Jewish races to his
Faith. No more laudable and meritorious service can be rendered the Cause
of God, at the present hour, than a successful effort to enhance the
diversity of the members of the American Baha'i community by swelling the
ranks of the Faith through the enrollment of the members of these races. A
blending of these highly differentiated elements of the human race,
harmoniously interwoven into the fabric of an all-embracing Baha'i
fraternity, and assimilated through the dynamic processes of a divinely
appointed Administrative Order, and contributing each its share to the
enrichment and glory of Baha'i community life, is surely an achievement
the contemplation of which must warm and thrill every Baha'i heart.
"Consider the flowers of a garden," 'Abdu'l-Baha has written, "though
differing in kind, color, form, and shape, yet, inasmuch as they are
refreshed by the waters of one spring, revived by the breath of one wind,
invigorated by the rays of one sun, this diversity 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." "I hope," is the wish
expressed by 'Abdu'l-Baha, "that ye may cause that downtrodden race
[Negro] to become glorious, and to be joined with the white race to serve
the world of man with the utmost sincerity, faithfulness, love and
purity." "One of the important questions," He also has written, "whi