A Loving Farewell Greeting. [edit]
AFTER leaving London and during his two months stay in Paris, Abdul Baha frequently sent back messages to his English friends, some of whom journeyed over to take advantage of the conferences there. On the eve of his departure for Alexandria, he gave the following admonitory farewell to the people of England and France.
“Work,” he said unceasingly, “for the day of Universal Peace. Strive always that you may be united. Kindness and love in the path of service must be your means.
“I bid a loving farewell to the people of
France and England. I am very much
pleased with them. I counsel them that they
may day by day strengthen the bond of love
and amity to this end,—that they may become
the sympathetic embodiment of one nation,—that
they may extend themselves to a
universal Brotherhood to guard and protect
the interest and rights of all the nations of the
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East,—that they may unfurl the Divine
Banner of justice,—that they may treat each
nation as a family composed of the individual
children of God and may know that before the
sight of God the rights of all are equal. For
all of us are the children of one Father. God
is at peace with all his children; why should
they engage in strife and warfare among
themselves? God is showering down kindness;
why should the inhabitants of this
world exchange unkindness and cruelty?”
“I will pray for you that you may be illumined with the Light of the Eternal.”
