urage to step forward
pronouncing words not habitual for crowned heads to pronounce, but I
advance by an inner urge I cannot resist. With bowed head I recognize that
I too am but an instrument in greater Hands, and I rejoice in the
knowledge."

A note which Martha Root, upon her arrival in Bucharest, sent to her
Majesty and a copy of "Baha'u'llah and the New Era," which accompanied the
note, and which so absorbed the Queen's attention that she continued
reading it into the small hours of the morning, led, two days later, to
the Queen's granting Martha Root an audience, on January 30, 1926, in
Controceni Palace in Bucharest, in the course of which her Majesty avowed
her belief that "these teachings are the solution for the world's
problems"; and from these followed her publication, that same year on her
own initiative, of those three epoch-making testimonies which appeared in
nearly two hundred newspapers of the United States and Canada, and which
were subsequently translated and published in Europe, China, Japan,
Australia, the Near East and the Islands of the seas.

In the first of these testimonies she affirmed that the writings of
Baha'u'llah and 'Abdu'l-Baha are "a great cry toward peace, reaching
beyond all limits of frontiers, above all dissensions 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... It is Christ's message taken up anew, in the same words
almost, but adapted to the thousand years and more difference that lies
between the year one and today." She added a remarkable admonition,
reminiscent of the telling words of Dr. Benjamin Jowett, who had hailed
the Faith, in his conversation with his pupil, Prof. Lewis Campbell, as
"the greatest light that has come into the world since the time of Jesus
Christ," and cautioned him to "watch it" and never let it out of his
sight. "If ever," wrote the Queen, "the name of Baha'u'llah or
'Abdu'l-Baha 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... Seek them and be the happier."

In another of these testimonies, wherein she makes a significant comment
on the station of the Arabian Prophet, she declared: "God is all.
Everythi