_And the Baha'i Movement is proclaiming to the world the glad tidings that this Educator has in fact appeared, that His Revelation has been delivered and recorded and may be studied by every earnest seeker, that the "Day of the Lord" has already dawned and the "Sun or Righteousness" arisen._ As yet only a few on the mountaintops have caught sight of the Glorious Orb, but already its rays are illumining heaven and earth, and erelong it will rise above the mountains and shine with full strength on the plains and valleys too, giving life and guidance to all.
The Changing World That the world, during the nineteenth and the early part of the twentieth centuries,( 1) has been passing through the death pangs of an old era and the birth pangs of a new, is evident to all.

The old principles of materialism and self-interest, the old sectarian and patriotic prejudices and animosities, are perishing, discredited, amidst the ruins they have wrought, and in all lands we see signs of a new spirit of faith, of brotherhood, of internationalism, that is bursting the old bonds and overrunning the old boundaries.

Revolutionary changes of unprecedented magnitude have been occurring in every department of human life.

The old era is not yet dead.

It is engaged in a life and death struggle with the new.