ebrated passage addressed to William I, King of Prussia and
newly-acclaimed emperor of a unified Germany, He, in His Kitab-i-Aqdas,
bids the sovereign hearken to His Voice, the Voice of God Himself; warns
him to take heed lest his pride debar him from recognizing "the Day-Spring
of Divine Revelation," and admonishes him to "remember the one (Napoleon
III) whose power transcended" his power, and who "went down to dust in
great loss." Furthermore, in that same Book, apostrophizing the "banks of
the Rhine," He predicts that "the swords of retribution" would be drawn
against them, and that "the lamentations of Berlin" would be raised,
though at that time she was "in conspicuous glory."

In another notable passage of that same Book, addressed to Francis-Joseph,
the Austrian Emperor and heir of the Holy Roman Empire, Baha'u'llah
reproves the sovereign for having neglected to inquire about Him in the
course of a pilgrimage to Jerusalem; takes God to witness that He had
found him "clinging unto the Branch and heedless of the Root"; grieves to
observe his waywardness; and bids him open his eyes and gaze on "the Light
that shineth above this luminous Horizon."

To 'Ali Pa_sh_a, the Grand Vizir of the Sultan of Turkey He addressed,
shortly after His arrival in Akka, a second Tablet, in which He reprimands
him for his cruelty "that hath made hell to blaze and the Spirit to
lament"; recounts his acts of oppression; condemns him as one of those
who, from time immemorial, have denounced the Prophets as stirrers of
mischief; prophesies his downfall; expatiates on His own sufferings and
those of His fellow-exiles; extolls their fortitude and detachment;
predicts that God's "wrathful anger" will seize him and his government,
that "sedition will be stirred up" in their midst, and that their
"dominions will be disrupted"; and affirms that were he to awake, he would
abandon all his possessions, and would "choose to abide in one of the
dilapidated rooms of this Most Great Prison." In the Lawh-i-Fu'ad, in the
course of His reference to the premature death of the Sultan's Foreign
Minister, Fu'ad Pa_sh_a, He thus confirms His above-mentioned prediction:
"Soon will We dismiss the one ('Ali Pa_sh_a) who was like unto him and
will lay hold on their Chief (Sultan 'Abdu'l-'Aziz) who ruleth the land,
and I, verily, am the Almighty, the All-Compelling."

No less outspoken and emphatic are the messages, some embodied in specific
Tablets, others inters