of them, and when he had
reached the seventh, he would know that the Sabbath had arrived, and
thereupon would observe it." If the Son of Man was capable of infusing
into apparently so crude and helpless an instrument such potency as to
cause, in the words of Baha'u'llah, "the mysteries of wisdom and of
utterance to flow out of his mouth," and to exalt him above the rest of
His disciples, and render him fit to become His successor and the founder
of His Church, how much more can the Father, Who is Baha'u'llah, empower
the most puny and insignificant among His followers to achieve, for the
execution of His purpose, such wonders as would dwarf the mightiest
achievements of even the first apostle of Jesus Christ!

"The Bab," 'Abdu'l-Baha, moreover, has written, "hath said: 'Should a tiny
ant desire, in this day, to be possessed of such power as to be able to
unravel the abstrusest and most bewildering passages of the Qur'an, its
wish will no doubt be fulfilled, inasmuch as the mystery of eternal might
vibrates within the innermost being of all created things.' If so helpless
a creature can be endowed with so subtle a capacity, how much more
efficacious must be the power released through the liberal effusions of
the grace of Baha'u'llah!"

The field is indeed so immense, the period so critical, the Cause so
great, the workers so few, the time so short, the privilege so priceless,
that no follower of the Faith of Baha'u'llah, worthy to bear His name, can
afford a moment's hesitation. That God-born Force, irresistible in its
sweeping power, incalculable in its potency, unpredictable in its course,
mysterious in its workings, and awe-inspiring in its manifestations--a
Force which, as the Bab has written, "vibrates within the innermost being
of all created things," and which, according to Baha'u'llah, has through
its "vibrating influence," "upset the equilibrium of the world and
revolutionized its ordered life"--such a Force, acting even as a two-edged
sword, is, under our very eyes, sundering, on the one hand, the age-old
ties which for centuries have held together the fabric of civilized
society, and is unloosing, on the other, the bonds that still fetter the
infant and as yet unemancipated Faith of Baha'u'llah. The undreamt-of
opportunities offered through the operation of this Force--the American
believers must now rise, and fully and courageously exploit them. "The
holy realities of the Concourse on high," writes 'Abdu'l-B