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The World Order of Bahá'u'lláh
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Pages 26-30
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The Goal of a New World Order
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Fellow-believers in the Faith of Bahá'u'lláh:
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The inexorable march of recent events has carried humanity so
near to the goal foreshadowed by Bahá'u'lláh that no responsible
follower of His Faith, viewing on all sides the distressing evidences
of the world's travail, can remain unmoved at the thought of its
approaching deliverance.
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It would not seem inappropriate, at a time when we are commemorating
the world over the termination of the first decade since
`Abdu'l-Bahá's sudden removal from our midst, to ponder, in the
light of the teachings bequeathed by Him to the world, such events
as have tended to hasten the gradual emergence of the World Order
anticipated by Bahá'u'lláh.
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Ten years ago, this very day, there flashed upon the world the
news of the passing of Him Who alone, through the ennobling influence
of His love, strength and wisdom, could have proved its stay
and solace in the many afflictions it was destined to suffer.
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How well we, the little band of His avowed supporters who lay
claim to have recognized the Light that shone within Him, can still
remember His repeated allusions, in the evening of His earthly life,
to the tribulation and turmoil with which an unregenerate humanity
was to be increasingly afflicted. How poignantly some of us can
recall His pregnant remarks, in the presence of the pilgrims and
visitors who thronged His doors on the morrow of the jubilant
celebrations that greeted the termination of the World War--a war,
which by the horrors it evoked, the losses it entailed and the complications
it engendered, was destined to exert so far-reaching an
influence on the fortunes of mankind. How serenely, yet how powerfully,
He stressed the cruel deception which a Pact, hailed by peoples
and nations as the embodiment of triumphant justice and the unfailing
instrument of an abiding peace, held in store for an unrepented
humanity. Peace, Peace, how often we heard Him remark, the
lips of potentates and peoples unceasingly proclaim, whereas the
fire of unquenched hatreds still smoulders in their hearts. How often
we heard Him raise His voice, whilst the tumult of triumphant enthusiasm
was still at its height and long before the faintest misgivings
could have been felt or expressed, confidently declaring that the
Document, extolled as the Charter of a liberated humanity, contained
within itself seeds of such bitter deception as would further
enslave the world. How abundant are now the evidences that attest
the perspicacity of His unerring judgment!
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Ten years of unceasing turmoil, so laden with anguish, so
fraught with incalculable consequences to the future of civilization,
have brought the world to the verge of a calamity too awful to
contemplate. Sad indeed is the contrast between the manifestations
of confident enthusiasm in which the Plenipotentiaries at Versailles
so freely indulged and the cry of unconcealed distress which victors
and vanquished alike are now raising in the hour of bitter delusion.
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