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His revelation of the station and functions of His loved ones, or His
eulogies of the greatness of His Cause, or His emphasis on the paramount
importance of teaching, or the dangers which He foreshadows, the counsels
He imparts, the warnings He utters, the vistas He discloses, and the
assurances and promises He gives, these dynamic and typical examples of
Baha'u'llah's sublime utterance, each having a direct bearing on the tasks
which actually face or lie ahead of the American Baha'i community, cannot
fail to produce on the minds and hearts of any one of its members, who
approaches them with befitting humility and detachment, such powerful
reactions as to illuminate his entire being and intensify tremendously his
daily exertions.

"O friends! Be not careless of the virtues with which ye have been
endowed, neither be neglectful of your high destiny.... Ye are the stars
of the heaven of understanding, the breeze that stirreth at the break of
day, the soft-flowing waters upon which must depend the very life of all
men, the letters inscribed upon His sacred scroll." "O people of Baha! Ye
are the breezes of spring that are wafted over the world. Through you We
have adorned the world of being with the ornament of the knowledge of the
Most Merciful. Through you the countenance of the world hath been wreathed
in smiles, and the brightness of His light shone forth. Cling ye to the
Cord of steadfastness, in such wise that all vain imaginings may utterly
vanish. Speed ye forth from the horizon of power, in the name of your
Lord, the Unconstrained, and announce unto His servants, with wisdom and
eloquence, the tidings of this Cause, whose splendor hath been shed upon
the world of being. Beware lest anything withhold you from observing the
things prescribed unto you by the Pen of Glory, as it moved over His
Tablet with sovereign majesty and might. Great is the blessedness of him
that hath hearkened to its shrill voice, as it was raised, through the
power of truth, before all who are in heaven and all who are on earth....
O people of Baha! The river that is Life indeed hath flowed for your
sakes. Quaff ye in My name, despite them that have disbelieved in God, the
Lord of Revelation. We have made you to be the hands of Our Cause. Render
ye victorious this Wronged One, Who hath been sore-tried in the hands of
the workers of iniquity. He, verily, will aid everyone that aideth Him,
and will remember everyone that remembereth Him. To thi