tions are
not untrammeled and free of intrigues like the United States, and
are unable to bring about Universal Peace. But America, thank God,
is at peace with all the world, and is worthy of raising the flag
of brotherhood and International Peace. When the summons to
International Peace is raised by America, all the rest of the
world will cry: "Yes, we accept." The nations of every clime will
join in adopting the teachings of Baha'u'llah, revealed over fifty
years ago. In His Epistles He asked the parliaments of the world
to send their best and wisest men to an international world
parliament that should decide all questions between the peoples
and establish peace ... then we shall have the Parliament of Man
of which the prophets have dreamed.

The appeals of Baha'u'llah and 'Abdu'l-Baha have already been responded
to, in a large measure, by the United States of America, and in no country
of the world have the Baha'i teachings met with readier acceptance. The
role assigned to America, of summoning the nations to international peace,
has as yet, however, been only partially played, and Baha'is are awaiting
with interest the developments which the future has in store.(41)

The Great War

Both Baha'u'llah and 'Abdu'l-Baha on many occasions foretold with
surprising accuracy the coming of the Great War of 1914-1918. At
Sacramento, California, on October 26, 1912, 'Abdu'l-Baha said:--"Today the
European continent is like an arsenal. It is a storehouse of explosives,
ready for just a spark, and one spark could set aflame the whole of
Europe, particularly at this time, when the Balkan question is before the
world."

In many of His addresses in America and Europe He gave similar warning. In
another address in California in October 1912 He said:--

We are on the eve of the Battle of Armageddon referred to in the
sixteenth chapter of Revelation. The time is two years hence, when
only a spark will set aflame the whole of Europe.

The social unrest in all countries, the growing religious
scepticism antecedent to the millennium, and already here, will
set aflame the whole of Europe as is prophesied in the Book of
Daniel and in the Book (Revelation) of John.

By 1917 kingdoms will fall and cataclysms will rock the earth.
(Reported by Mrs. Corinne True in The North Shore Review,
September 26, 1914, Chicago, U.S.A.)

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