d and taught in
all the schools of the world. Then this difficulty also will be completely
removed.

The third great obstacle was religious prejudice and intolerance. That,
too, is disappearing. Men's minds are becoming more open. The education of
the people is passing more and more out of the hands of sectarian priests;
and new and more liberal ideas can no longer be prevented from penetrating
into even the most exclusive and conservative circles.

Baha'u'llah is thus the first of the great Prophets Whose message has
become known within a period of comparatively few years in every quarter
of the globe. Within a short time the essential teachings of Baha'u'llah,
translated from His own authentic Writings, will be directly accessible to
every man, woman and child in the world who is able to read.

Fullness of the Baha'i Revelation

The Baha'i Revelation is unprecedented and unique among the faiths of the
world by reason of the fullness and completeness of its authentic records.
The recorded words that can with certainty be attributed to Christ, to
Moses, to Zoroaster, to Buddha, to Krishna, are very few, and leave many
modern questions of great practical importance unanswered. Many of the
teachings commonly attributed to these religious Founders are of doubtful
authenticity, and some are evidently accretions of later date. The
Muhammadans possess in the Qur'an, and in a large store of traditions, a
much fuller record of the life and teachings of their Prophet, but
Muhammad Himself, though inspired, was illiterate, as were most of His
early followers. The methods employed for recording and spreading His
teachings were in many respects unsatisfactory, and the authenticity of
many of the traditions is very doubtful. As a result, differences of
interpretation and conflicting opinions have cause divisions and
dissensions in Islam, as in all previous religious communities.

On the other hand, both the Bab and Baha'u'llah wrote copiously and with
great eloquence and power. As both were debarred from public speaking and
spent most of Their lives (after the declaration of Their mission) in
prison, They devoted a large proportion of Their time to writing, with the
result that in richness of authentic scriptures the Baha'i Revelation is
unapproached by any of its predecessors. Clear and full expositions are
given of many truths which were but dimly foreshadowed in previous
revelations, and the eternal principles of trut