O thou blossom on the Tree of Life! Happy art thou to have girded thy
loins in service; to have risen with all thy power in the promulgation of
the divine teachings, to have convened gatherings and to have striven for
the exaltation of the Word of God.
In this mortal world every important matter hath an end; and every
remarkable achievement a termination; none having permanent existence. For
instance, consider how the important achievements of the ancient world
have been totally exterminated and not a trace remaineth therefrom save
the great Cause of the Kingdom of God, which hath no beginning and will
have no end. At most, it is only renewed. At the beginning of each renewal
it commandeth no attention in the sight of the people, but when once
definitely established, it will daily advance and in its daily exaltation
will reach the supreme heavens.
For instance, consider the day of Christ, which was the day of the renewal
of the Kingdom of God. The people of the world attached no importance to
it and did not realize its significance to such an extent that the
sepulchre of Christ remained lost and unknown for three hundred years,
until the maidservant of God, Helen, the mother of Constantine arrived and
discovered the sacred spot.
My purpose in all this is to show how unobservant are the people of the
world and how ignorant, and on the day of the establishment of the
Kingdom, they remain heedless and negligent.
Erelong the power of the Kingdom will encompass all the world and then
they will be awakened and will cry and lament over those who were
oppressed and martyred, and will sigh and moan. Such is the nature of
people.