rtherner
or a southerner, a layman or a priest, a capitalist or a socialist, a
statesman or a prince, an artisan or a beggar. In their presentation of
the Message of Baha'u'llah they must neither hesitate nor falter. They
must be neither contemptuous of the poor nor timid before the great. In
their exposition of its verities they must neither overstress nor whittle
down the truth which they champion, whether their hearer belong to
royalty, or be a prince of the church, or a politician, or a tradesman, or
a man of the street. To all alike, high or low, rich or poor, they must
proffer, with open hands, with a radiant heart, with an eloquent tongue,
with infinite patience, with uncompromising loyalty, with great wisdom,
with unshakable courage, the Cup of Salvation at so critical an hour, to
the confused, the hungry, the distraught and fear-stricken multitudes, in
the north, in the west, in the south and in the heart, of that sorely
tried continent.

EUROPE FEELS STIRRINGS OF SPIRITUAL REVOLUTION

The second century of the Baha'i Era has dawned. The second stage of the
Divine Plan has been launched. The second epoch of the Formative Age of
the Baha'i Dispensation has opened. The tragedy of a continent, so
blessed, so rich in history, so harassed, is moving towards a climax. The
vanguard of the torchbearers of a world-redeeming civilization are landing
on its shores and are settling in its capitals. An epoch has commenced,
inaugurating the systematic conquest of the European continent by the
organized body of the "apostles of Baha'u'llah," destined to unfold its
potentialities in the course of succeeding centuries, and bidding fair to
eclipse the radiance of those past ages which have successfully witnessed
the introduction of the Christian Faith into the continent's northern
climes, the efflorescence of Islamic culture that shed such radiance along
its southern shores, and the rise of the Reformation in its very heart.

The stage is set. The hour is propitious. The signal is sounded.
Baha'u'llah's spiritual battalions are moving into position. The initial
clash between the forces of darkness and the army of light, as unnoticed
as the landing, two milleniums ago, of the apostles of Christ on the
southern shores of the European continent, is being registered by the
denizens of the Abha Kingdom. The Author of the Plan that has set so
titanic an enterprise in motion is Himself mounted at the head of these
battalion