O ye that dwell on earth! The distinguishing feature that marketh the preeminent character of this Supreme Revelation consisteth in that We have, on the one hand, blotted out from the pages of God's book whatsoever hath been the cause of strife, of malice and mischief amongst the children of men, and have, on the other, laid down the essential prerequisites of concord, of understanding, of complete and enduring unity.

Well is it with them that keep My statutes .-- BAHA'U'LLAH, Tablet of the World.
Sectarianism in the Nineteenth Century Never, perhaps, did the world seem farther away from religious unity than in the nineteenth century.

For many centuries had the great religious communities--the Zoroastrian, Mosaic, Buddhist, Christian, Muhammadan and others--been existing side by side, but instead of blending together into a harmonious whole they had been at constant enmity and strife, each against the others.

Not only so, but each had become split up, by division after division, into an increasing number of sects which were often bitterly opposed to each other.

Yet Christ had said: "By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another, " and Muhammad had said: "This your religion is the one religion....