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Peace

  • Author:
  • Various

  • Source:
  • Compiled by the Research Department of the Universal House of Justice, Bahá’í World Centre, August 1985
  • Pages:
  • 40
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Page 32

EXTRACTS FROM LETTERS WRITTEN ON BEHALF OF SHOGHI EFFENDI

54: The world is in great turmoil, and what is most pathetic is that it has learned…

The world is in great turmoil, and what is most pathetic is that it has learned to keep away from God, Who alone can save it and alleviate its sufferings. It is our duty, we who have been trusted with the task of applying the divine remedy given by Bahá’u’lláh, to concentrate our attention upon the consummation of this task, and not rest until the peace foretold by the Prophets of God is permanently established….
(9 December 1931 to the Bahá’ís of Tokyo) [54]