the number of the religious systems, whose conflicting
loyalties have for so many generations disturbed the peace of mankind,
this Faith is instilling into each of its adherents a new love for, and a
genuine appreciation of the unity underlying, the various religions
represented within its pale.

"It is like a wide embrace," such is the testimony of Royalty to its claim
and position, "gathering together all those who have long searched for
words of hope. It accepts all great Prophets gone before it, destroys no
other creeds, and leaves all doors open." "The Baha'i teaching," she has
further written, "brings peace to the soul and hope to the heart. To those
in search of assurance the words of the Father are as a fountain in the
desert after long wandering." "Their writings," she, in another statement
referring to Baha'u'llah and 'Abdu'l-Baha, has testified, "are a great cry
toward peace, reaching beyond all limits of frontiers, above all
dissension about rites and dogmas... It is a wondrous message that
Baha'u'llah and His son 'Abdu'l-Baha have given us. They have not set it
up aggressively knowing that the germ of eternal truth which lies at its
core cannot but take root and spread." "If ever the name of Baha'u'llah or
'Abdu'l-Baha," is her concluding plea, "comes to your attention, do not
put their writings from you. Search out their Books, and let their
glorious, peace-bringing, love-creating words and lessons sink into your
hearts as they have into mine."

The Faith of Baha'u'llah has assimilated, by virtue of its creative, its
regulative and ennobling energies, the varied races, nationalities, creeds
and classes that have sought its shadow, and have pledged unswerving
fealty to its cause. It has changed the hearts of its adherents, burned
away their prejudices, stilled their passions, exalted their conceptions,
ennobled their motives, coeordinated their efforts, and transformed their
outlook. While preserving their patriotism and safeguarding their lesser
loyalties, it has made them lovers of mankind, and the determined
upholders of its best and truest interests. While maintaining intact their
belief in the Divine origin of their respective religions, it has enabled
them to visualize the underlying purpose of these religions, to discover
their merits, to recognize their sequence, their interdependence, their
wholeness and unity, and to acknowledge the bond that vitally links them
to itself. This universal, this tra