BahÃĄâ•Žuâ•ŽllÃĄh and the New Era - Knowledge Rush

AmericaIn the Book of Aqdas, revealed in Akká in 1873, Bahá’u’lláhappealed to America as follows:—O Rulers of America and the Presidents of the Republicstherein ... Give ear unto that which hath been raised fromthe Dayspring of Grandeur: Verily, there is none other Godbut Me, the Lord of Utterance, the All-Knowing. Bind ye thebroken with the hands of justice, and crush the oppressor whoflourisheth with the rod of the commandments of your Lord,the Ordainer, the All-Wise.—Kitáb-i-Aqdas.‘Abdu’l-Bahá in His addresses in America and elsewhere frequentlyexpressed the hope, the prayer and the assurance that thebanner of international peace would be first raised in America.At Cincinnati, Ohio, on November 5, 1912, He said:—America is a noble nation, a standard-bearer of peacethroughout the world, shedding her light to all regions. Othernations are not untrammeled and free of intrigues like theUnited States, and are unable to bring about Universal Peace.But America, thank God, is at peace with all the world, andis worthy of raising the flag of brotherhood and InternationalPeace. When the summons to International Peace is raised byAmerica, all the rest of the world will cry: “Yes, we accept.”The nations of every clime will join in adopting the teachingsof Bahá’u’lláh, revealed over fifty years ago. In His EpistlesHe asked the parliaments of the world to send their best andwisest men to an international world parliament that shoulddecide all questions between the peoples and establish peace... then we shall have the Parliament of Man of which theprophets have dreamed.The appeals of Bahá’u’lláh and ‘Abdu’l-Bahá have alreadybeen responded to, in a large measure, by the United States of