s by the bestowals of God. Every day
he has proclaimed new glad tidings. Every hour fresh bounties descend.

Consider how all the people are asleep, and ye are awake. They are dead,
and ye are alive through the breaths of the Holy Spirit. They are blind
while ye are endowed with perceptive sight. They are deprived of the love
of God, but in your hearts it exists and is glowing. Consider these
bestowals and favors.

Therefore, in thanksgiving for them ye must act in accordance with the
teachings of Baha'u'llah. Ye must read the Tablets--the Hidden Words,
I_sh_raqat, Glad Tidings--all the holy utterances, and act according to
them. This is real thanksgiving, to live in accord with these utterances.
This is true thankfulness and the divine bestowal. This is thanksgiving
and glorification of God.

I hope you all may attain thereto, be mindful of these favors of God and
be attentive. It is my hope that I may go away from New York with a happy
heart, and my heart is happy when the friends of God love each other, when
they manifest the mercy of God to all people. If I see this, I shall go
away happy.

Salutations!

TALKS 'ABDU'L-BAHA DELIVERED IN BOSTON

23 July 1912
Talk at Hotel Victoria
Boston, Massachusetts

Notes by Edna McKinney

The Baha'is must not engage in political movements which lead to sedition.
They must interest themselves in movements which conduce to law and order.
In Persia at the present time the Baha'is have no part in the
revolutionary upheavals which have terminated in lawlessness and
rebellion. Nevertheless, a Baha'i may hold a political office and be
interested in politics of the right type. Ministers, state officials and
governor-generals in Persia are Baha'is, and there are many other Baha'is
holding governmental positions; but nowhere throughout the world should
the followers of Baha'u'llah be engaged in seditious movements. For
example, if there should be an uprising here in America having for its
purpose the establishment of a despotic government, the Baha'is should not
be connected with it.

The Baha'i Cause covers all economic and social questions under the
heading and ruling of its laws. The essence of the Baha'i spirit is that,
in order to establish a better social order and economic condition, there
must be allegiance to the laws and principles of government. Under the
laws which are to govern the world, the socialists may justly demand human
rights but without re