fierce riots that so long
and so violently rocked the Holy Land, and despite the smoldering fire of
animosity kindled in the breasts of ecclesiastics and Covenant-breakers
alike--all combined to demonstrate, afresh and with compelling power, the
invincible might of the Cause of Baha'u'llah.

The Purest Branch, the martyred son, the companion, and amanuensis of
Baha'u'llah, that pious and holy youth, who in the darkest days of
Baha'u'llah's incarceration in the barracks of Akka entreated, on his
death-bed, his Father to accept him as a ransom for those of His loved
ones who yearned for, but were unable to attain, His presence, and the
saintly mother of 'Abdu'l-Baha, surnamed Navvab by Baha'u'llah, and the
first recipient of the honored and familiar title of "the Most Exalted
Leaf," separated in death above half a century, and forced to suffer the
humiliation of an alien burial-ground, are now at long last reunited with
the Greatest Holy Leaf with whom they had so abundantly shared the
tribulations of one of the most distressing episodes of the Heroic Age of
the Faith of Baha'u'llah. Avenged, eternally safeguarded, befittingly
glorified, they repose embosomed in the heart of Carmel, hidden beneath
its sacred soil, interred in one single spot, lying beneath the shadow of
the twin holy Tombs, and facing across the bay, on an eminence of
unequalled loveliness and beauty, the silver-city of Akka, the Point of
Adoration of the entire Baha'i world, and the Door of Hope for all
mankind. "Haste thee, O Carmel!" thus proclaims the Pen of Baha'u'llah,
"for lo, the light of the countenance of God, the Ruler of the Kingdom of
Names and Fashioner of the heavens, hath been lifted upon thee." "Rejoice,
for God hath in this Day established upon thee His throne, hath made thee
the dawning-place of His signs and the day-spring of the evidences of His
Revelation."

The machinations of Badi'u'llah--the brother and lieutenant of the Focal
Center of sedition and Arch-Breaker of the Covenant of Baha'u'llah, the
deceased Muhammad-'Ali--who with uncommon temerity and exceptional vigor
addressed his written protest to the civil authorities, claiming the right
to oppose the projected transfer of the remains of the mother and brother
of 'Abdu'l-Baha, have been utterly frustrated. So foolish a claim,
advanced by one who in the Will and Testament of 'Abdu'l-Baha has been
denounced as an "alert and active worker of mischief," and whose life has
been