atholic Church in Mexico; and finally the gospel of modern paganism,
unconcealed, aggressive, and unrelenting, which, in the years preceding
the present turmoil, and increasingly since its outbreak, has swept over
the continent of Europe, invading the citadels, and sowing confusion in
the hearts of the supporters, of the Catholic, the Greek Orthodox, and the
Lutheran churches, in Austria, Poland, the Baltic and Scandinavian states,
and more recently in Western Europe, the home and center of the most
powerful hierarchies of Christendom.

CHRISTIAN NATIONS AGAINST CHRISTIAN NATIONS

What a sorry spectacle of impotence and disruption does this fratricidal
war, which Christian nations are waging against Christian
nations--Anglicans pitted against Lutherans, Catholics against Greek
Orthodox, Catholics against Catholics, and Protestants against
Protestants--in support of a so-called Christian civilization, offer to the
eyes of those who are already perceiving the bankruptcy of the
institutions that claim to speak in the name, and to be the custodians, of
the Faith of Jesus Christ! The powerlessness and despair of the Holy See
to halt this internecine strife, in which the children of the Prince of
Peace--blessed and supported by the benedictions and harangues of the
prelates of a hopelessly divided church--are engaged, proclaim the degree
of subservience into which the once all-powerful institutions of the
Christian Faith have sunk, and are a striking reminder of the parallel
state of decadence into which the hierarchies of its sister religion have
fallen.

How tragically has Christendom ignored, and how far it has strayed from,
that high mission which He Who is the true Prince of Peace has, in these,
the concluding passages of His Tablet to Pope Pius IX, called upon the
entire body of Christians to fulfill--passages which establish, for all
time, the distinction between the Mission of Baha'u'llah in this age and
that of Jesus Christ: "Say: O concourse of Christians! We have, on a
previous occasion, revealed Ourself unto you, and ye recognized Me not.
This is yet another occasion vouchsafed unto you. This is the Day of God;
turn ye unto Him.... The Beloved One loveth not that ye be consumed with
the fire of your desires. Were ye to be shut out as by a veil from Him,
this would be for no other reason than your own waywardness and ignorance.
Ye make mention of Me, and know Me not. Ye call upon Me, and are heedless
of