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Mrs. Shirin Boman Baha'i Rep esentative
trade. Greater stress is laid on the education of girls as they are the potential mothers and the real educators of next generation.
Another principle is the establishment of a world language. Every child should be taught his or her mother tongue besides an auxiliary language which shall be made compulsory in all the schools of the world. By this man shall teel at home wherever he goes.
Thus the Baha'i teachings summon us to the attitude of seeking and recognizing Truth, of uniting and combining our forces for serving humanity as a whole and of discarding all prejudices whether of caste, creed, colour, religion, language and nationality, so that we may enter this dawning age of true advancement. "The world is but one country and mankind its citizens". This is the day for the "Union of all peoples in one Universal Cause, one Common Faith." (Baha'u'llah).
Let us listen to the divine call for this age "Retrace your steps, O my servants, and incline your hearts to Him who is the source of all creation. Deliver yourselves from your evil ans corrupt affections, and hasten to embrace the light of the undying Fire that gloweth on the Sinai of this mysterious aed transcendent Revelation. Corrupt not the holy, the all-embracing, and primal Word of God, and seek not to profane its sanctity or to debase its exalted character."
"All men have been created to carry forward an ever-advancing civilization. The Almighty beareth me witness : To act like the beasts of the field is unworthy of man. Those virtues that befit his dignity are forbearance, mercy, compassion and loving-kindness towards all the people and kindreds of the earth"-Baha'u'llah.
For, "The All Knowing Physician hath His finger on the pulse of mankind. He preceiveth the disease and prescribeth, in His unerring wisdom, the remedy. Every age hath its own problem, and every sout its particular aspiration. The remedy the world needeth in its present-day afflictions can never be the same as that which a subsequent age many require. Be anxiously concerned with the needs of the age ye live in, and center your deliberations on its exigencies and requirements.
"We can well perceive how the whole human race is encompassed with great, with incalculable afflictions. We see it languishing on its bed of sickness, sore-tired and disillusioned. They that are intoxicated by selfconceit have interposed themselves between it and the Divine and infallible Physician. Witness how they have entangled all men, themselves included, in the mesh of their devices. They can neither discover the cause of the disease, nor have they any knowledge of the remedy. They have conceived
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Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
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