and spiritual, the Golden
Age may be realized, when, by the Power of God, "all sorrow will be turned
into joy, and all disease into health." 'Abdu'l-Baha says that "when the
Divine Message is understood, all troubles will vanish." Again He says:--

When the material world and the divine world are well correlated,
when the hearts become heavenly and the aspirations pure, perfect
connection shall take place. Then shall this power produce a
perfect manifestation. Physical and spiritual diseases will then
receive absolute healing.

Right Use of Health

In concluding this chapter it will be well to recall 'Abdu'l-Baha's
teaching as to the right use of physical health. In one of His Tablets to
the Baha'is of Washington He says:--

If the health and well-being of the body be expended in the path
of the Kingdom, this is very acceptable and praiseworthy; and if
it be expended to the benefit of the human world in general--even
though it be to their material (or bodily) benefit--and be a means
of doing good, that is also acceptable. But if the health and
welfare of man be spent in sensual desires, in a life on the
animal plane, and in devilish pursuits--then disease were better
than such health; nay, death itself were preferable to such a
life. If thou art desirous of health, wish thou health for serving
the Kingdom. I hope that thou mayest attain perfect insight,
inflexible resolution, complete health, and spiritual and physical
strength in order that thou mayest drink from the fountain of
eternal life and be assisted by the spirit of divine confirmation.

CHAPTER 8: RELIGIOUS UNITY

O ye that dwell on earth! The distinguishing feature that marketh the
preeminent character of this Supreme Revelation consisteth in that We
have, on the one hand, blotted out from the pages of God's book whatsoever
hath been the cause of strife, of malice and mischief amongst the children
of men, and have, on the other, laid down the essential prerequisites of
concord, of understanding, of complete and enduring unity. Well is it with
them that keep My statutes.--BAHA'U'LLAH, Tablet of the World.

Sectarianism in the Nineteenth Century

Never, perhaps, did the world seem farther away from religious unity than
in the nineteenth century. For many centuries had the great religious
communities--the Zoroastrian, Mosaic, Buddhist, Christian, Muhamm