ren. They are plundering the believers' property,
sacking their hearths and homes.

Those, however, who have been trained and educated in the school of God,
even when coming to such a pass, are resignation itself, and to the brutal
aggressor they are as the living waters of Heaven. They are rivers of pure
mercy and peace. Though powerful and well able to defend themselves, they
never raise a hand to strike, nor do they open their lips to protest. They
confront the others' taunts and curses with prayers that God will forgive
them, and their reply to the wounds of bullet and sword is to offer milk
and honey. They kiss the murderer's hand; as intoxicated lovers, they
drain the martyr's cup.

Such is the way of those who are attracted to His Kingdom, and that other
is the behaviour of the foolish, the heedless of God. So has it been, at
the time when the Manifestations of God appeared: the heedless and the
ignorant turned upon their heavenly Teachers, and the diseased harried and
tortured their loving Physicians in the spirit, idly thinking that they
were acquiring merit thereby. Thus have their imaginings always been, at
the outset of every Faith: that by such cruel acts they could destroy that
seed, the Word of God; or that by blowing against it, they could put out
the lamp that He has lit; or that by directing a storm of denial against
them, they could bring down His trees, so flourishing, so firmly rooted in
His Kingdom, or lay His fair gardens in ruins.

But as, time and again, experience has shown, in every age they have only
seen verified the Blessed Beauty's assurance that calamity's rushing rain
is the greening of His planted field, and afflictions are the oil that
feeds and adds to the radiance of the lamp of God. And then, as the days
go by, and they see with their own eyes the Day-Star in its noonday
splendour, witness the bewildering richness of the fields that God has
sown, behold His great and all-pervading Cause--then the fires of hatred
and envy flame out of the hell of their natures; they can contain
themselves no longer, and the truth of the holy words is proved, that God
will not bring down a people from their station unless they have corrupted
their good qualities themselves, and it becomes clearly shown that God
brings on the downfall of the heedless little by little and in ways that
they know not.

During occurrences of this kind, it is incumbent upon the believers in
other countries to immediately