marked by so many instances of extravagance, of betrayal and folly,
has been summarily rejected by the fairness and justice of the civil
authorities, in whose custody the notorious Sa_dh_ij, the daughter of that
same Badi'u'llah, is still retained, as a direct result of her ceaseless
instigations to rebellion and terrorism, and whose acts constitute a clear
and double violation of the civil law of the land and of the spiritual
ordinances of Baha'u'llah, in Whose Faith she professes to believe.

Unabashed by his appalling mistakes and blunders; undeterred by the
galling failure of his persistent efforts, in conjunction with his
brother, to establish, in the days following the passing of 'Abdu'l-Baha,
their alleged right to the custody of the Most Holy Tomb; unrestrained by
the memory of the abortive attempt of Muhammad-'Ali to retain the Mansion
of Baha'u'llah as a private residence for himself and his family;
unchastened by the spiritual and material misery into which he and his
kindred have sunk; and impotent to perceive the contrast between that
misery and the consolidating strength and ever-enhancing prestige of the
institutions heralding the birth of the World Order of Baha'u'llah at its
international center, he has, with characteristic insolence, dared to
raise once again his voice against the resistless march of events that are
steadily accelerating the expansion and establishment of the Faith in the
Holy Land.

For it must be clearly understood, nor can it be sufficiently emphasized,
that the conjunction of the resting-place of the Greatest Holy Leaf with
those of her brother and mother incalculably reinforces the spiritual
potencies of that consecrated Spot which, under the wings of the Bab's
overshadowing Sepulchre, and in the vicinity of the future
Ma_sh_riqu'l-A_dh_kar, which will be reared on its flank, is destined to
evolve into the focal center of those world-shaking, world-embracing,
world-directing administrative institutions, ordained by Baha'u'llah and
anticipated by 'Abdu'l-Baha, and which are to function in consonance with
the principles that govern the twin institutions of the Guardianship and
the Universal House of Justice. Then, and then only, will this momentous
prophecy which illuminates the concluding passages of the Tablet of Carmel
be fulfilled: "Ere long will God sail His Ark upon thee (Carmel), and will
manifest the people of Baha who have been mentioned in the Book of Names."

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