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Selections From the Writings of `Abdu'l-Bahá
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Pages 89-90
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47: O ye true friends! Your letter hath been received ...
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O ye true friends! Your letter hath been received and it brought great joy. God be praised, ye had made
ready an entertainment and established the feast which is to
be held every nineteen days. Whatsoever gathering is
arranged with the utmost love, and where those who attend
are turning their faces toward the Kingdom of God, and
where the discourse is of the Teachings of God, and the
effect of which is to cause those present to advance--that
gathering is the Lord's, and that festive table hath come
down from heaven.
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It is my hope that this feast will be given on one day out
of every nineteen, for it bringeth you closer together; it is
the very well-spring of unity and loving-kindness.
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Ye observe to what a degree the world is in continual
turmoil and conflict, and to what a pass its nations have now
come. Perchance will the lovers of God succeed in upraising
the banner of human unity, so that the one-coloured tabernacle
of the Kingdom of Heaven will cast its sheltering
shadow over all the earth; that misunderstandings among
the world's peoples will vanish away; that all nations will
mingle one with another, dealing with one another even as
the lover with his beloved.
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It is your duty to be exceedingly kind to every human
being, and to wish him well; to work for the upliftment of
society; to blow the breath of life into the dead; to act in
accordance with the instructions of Bahá'u'lláh and walk
His path--until ye change the world of man into the world
of God.
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