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power of His Word. Observe, how those in whose midst the Satan of self had
for years sown the seeds of malice and hate became so fused and blended
through their allegiance to this wondrous and transcendent Revelation that
it seemed as if they had sprung from the same loins. Such is the binding
force of the Word of God, which uniteth the hearts of them that have
renounced all else but Him, who have believed in His signs, and quaffed
from the Hand of glory the Kawthar of God's holy grace. Furthermore, how
numerous are those peoples of divers beliefs, of conflicting creeds, and
opposing temperaments, who, through the reviving fragrance of the Divine
springtime, breathing from the Ridvan of God, have been arrayed with the
new robe of divine Unity, and have drunk from the cup of His singleness!

This is the significance of the well-known words: "The wolf and the lamb
shall feed together."(79) Behold the ignorance and folly of those who,
like the nations of old, are still expecting to witness the time when
these beasts will feed together in one pasture! Such is their low estate.
Methinks, never have their lips touched the cup of understanding, neither
have their feet trodden the path of justice. Besides, of what profit would
it be to the world were such a thing to take place? How well hath He
spoken concerning them: "Hearts have they, with which they understand not,
and eyes have they with which they see not!"(80)

Consider how with this one verse which hath descended from the heaven of
the Will of God, the world and all that is therein have been brought to a
reckoning with Him. Whosoever acknowledged His truth and turned unto Him,
his good works outweighed his misdeeds, and all his sins were remitted and
forgiven. Thereby is the truth of these words concerning Him made
manifest: "Swift is He in reckoning." Thus God turneth iniquity into
righteousness, were ye to explore the realms of divine knowledge, and
fathom the mysteries of His wisdom. In like manner, whosoever partook of
the cup of love, obtained his portion of the ocean of eternal grace and of
the showers of everlasting mercy, and entered into the life of faith--the
heavenly and everlasting life. But he that turned away from that cup was
condemned to eternal death. By the terms "life" and "death," spoken of in
the scriptures, is intended the life of faith and the death of unbelief.
The generality of the people, owing to their failure to grasp the meaning
of