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Dearly beloved friends: Who, contemplating the helplessness,
the fears and miseries of humanity in this day, can any longer question
the necessity for a fresh revelation of the quickening power of
God's redemptive love and guidance? Who, witnessing on one hand
the stupendous advance achieved in the realm of human knowledge,
of power, of skill and inventiveness, and viewing on the other the
unprecedented character of the sufferings that afflict, and the dangers
that beset, present-day society, can be so blind as to doubt that
the hour has at last struck for the advent of a new Revelation, for
a re-statement of the Divine Purpose, and for the consequent revival
of those spiritual forces that have, at fixed intervals, rehabilitated
the fortunes of human society? Does not the very operation of the
world-unifying forces that are at work in this age necessitate that
He Who is the Bearer of the Message of God in this day should
not only reaffirm that self-same exalted standard of individual conduct
inculcated by the Prophets gone before Him, but embody in
His appeal, to all governments and peoples, the essentials of that
social code, that Divine Economy, which must guide humanity's
concerted efforts in establishing that all-embracing federation which
is to signalize the advent of the Kingdom of God on this earth?
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May we not, therefore, recognizing as we do the necessity for
such a revelation of God's redeeming power, meditate upon the
supreme grandeur of the System unfolded by the hand of Bahá'u'lláh
in this day? May we not pause, pressed though we be by the
daily preoccupations which the ever-widening range of the administrative
activities of His Faith must involve, to reflect upon the
sanctity of the responsibilities it is our privilege to shoulder?
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