of the Faith of His Father. It will be consummated through
the emergence of the Baha'i World Commonwealth in the Golden Age of the
Baha'i Dispensation.

The other process dates back to the outbreak of the first World War that
threw the great republic of the West into the vortex of the first stage of
a world upheaval. It received its initial impetus through the formulation
of President Wilson's Fourteen Points, closely associating for the first
time that republic with the fortunes of the Old World. It suffered its
first setback through the dissociation of that republic from the newly
born League of Nations which that president had labored to create. It
acquired added momentum through the outbreak of the second World War,
inflicting unprecedented suffering on that republic, and involving it
still further in the affairs of all the continents of the globe. It was
further reinforced through the declaration embodied in the Atlantic
Charter, as voiced by one of its chief progenitors, Franklin D. Roosevelt.
It assumed a definite outline through the birth of the United Nations at
the San Francisco Conference. It acquired added significance through the
choice of the City of the Covenant itself as the seat of the newly born
organization, through the declaration recently made by the American
president related to his country's commitments in Greece and Turkey, as
well as through the submission to the General Assembly of the United
Nations of the thorny and challenging problem of the Holy Land, the
spiritual as well as the administrative center of the World Faith of
Baha'u'llah. It must, however long and tortuous the way, lead, through a
series of victories and reverses, to the political unification of the
Eastern and Western Hemispheres, to the emergence of a world government
and the establishment of the Lesser Peace, as foretold by Baha'u'llah and
foreshadowed by the Prophet Isaiah. It must, in the end, culminate in the
unfurling of the banner of the Most Great Peace, in the Golden Age of the
Dispensation of Baha'u'llah.

A PARALLEL BETWEEN THE AMERICAN BAHA'I COMMUNITY AND THE AMERICAN REPUBLIC

Might not a still closer parallel be drawn between the community singled
out for the execution of this world-embracing Plan, in its relation to its
sister communities, and the nation of which it forms a part, in its
relation to its sister nations? On the one hand is a community which ever
since its birth has been nursed in the l