The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1920-02-14

JIG ANGAA ANA~AA~AN -
the martyrs of the earth-have drra','-
ed that a universal brotherhood
based on Truth and Justice. on Unity
and Freedom. On Fraternity and
Equality, on revealed science and :
common religion. would establish
world concord and universal peace.
Bahaism sees the essence of truth
in its universal light. IL realizes that
the great need Of the world today is
goodwill. truth. justice. liberty, fra
ternity; knowledge. friendship. and
universal citizenship. 1t is based on
the association and the solidarity Of
humanity. When we know each 9TH
er better we viii think better Of each
other.
That the ideals of Bahaism can be
realized suddenly is not expected
and is contrary to human experience
but this does not preclude the for
ward looking peoples of the earth
from working. through these ideals,
to prepare the world for this inevitable
condition-the dawn of the millen-
ium.
We are now living in the last
stages of feudalism, and though our
feudai states are larger than former
ly, and based on nationalism rather
than clanism, nevertheless we still
have the feudal mind. We are for
the most part narrow and provincial
in our thoughts, in our associations
and in our sympathies. 1t IS hard to
rise above our heredities and our en-
vironments. Through the agencies
of Bahaism. nevertheless. the dreams
of the philosophers viii come true
and the prejudices of the past shall
be dissipated like the murky mists
of doubt before the rising sun of uni
versal truth.
To be free we must rise above
racial, and religious, and national
prejudiees. These provincialisms are
a survival of past things and archaic
heredities. 1t may be instructive
but it Is antiquated. This racial and
religious hatred assumes various
phases as the different peoples come
into competitive contact. We will
get over il as we move along the
lines of Bahaism-into the domain Of
unity, fraternity, and universally.
The student of history knows that
most racial. and religious, and ma.
tional hatreds fade away when the
peoples really come to know each
other. The bitter enmity of the Irish
and the English, of the red man and
the white man, of the French and the
Corsiean, of the Jew and the Gen.
tile, of the Arab and the Mongrel
will disappear when they become cit
liens of the Republic of the World
under a special government where
they share common rights, and com
mon privileges, and common respon.
sibilities.
Bahaism is the new dispensation
1t means that the dream of the age.
is coming true. Bahaism is one OF
the best instrumentaiities of the time
to destroy the fears and tears, the
hatreds and superstitions, of the past
We should not condemn, or oppose
any honest effort to promote unity
and justice, peace and harmony, ed,
ucation and fraternity along inter
national lines.
Humanity is rising to greater
heights. The race Of today is break
ing the hateful shaekles of yesterday
Tomorrow we shall stand above tn,
clouds-and then, after long ages o
toll, we shall be oursslves-our rea
selves-under the dome of the greai
blue-in the sunlight of the univer
sal.
1t is significant that the thinking
people, all over the world, are nov
rising up and demanding that al
men shall be freel that wars shall be
no more; that all men must b
friends; and that the boundaries o.
the state shall be circumscribed only
by the air we breathe and the sun
shine of the Creator-which give tc
all life and opportunity.