The rulers and kings of the earth must needs attend it, and participating in its deliberations, must consider such ways and means as will lay the foundations of the world's Great Peace amongst men.

Such a peace demandeth that the Great Powers should resolve, for the sake of the tranquillity of the peoples of the earth, to be fully reconciled among themselves.
Should any kind take up arms against another, all should unitedly arise and prevent him .-- Gleanings from the Writings of Baha'u'llah, p.

249.
By such counsel, Baha'u'llah revealed the conditions under which public responsibility must be discharged in this Day of God.
Appealing for international solidarity on the one hand, He no less clearly warned the rulers that continuance of strife would destroy their power.

Now modern history confirms this warning, in the rise of those coercive movements which in all civilized nations have attained such destructive energy, and in the development of warfare to the degree that victory is no longer attainable by any party.

"Now that ye have refused the Most Great Peace, hold ye fast unto this, the Lesser Peace, that haply ye may in some degree better your own condition and that of your dependents." "That which the Lord hath ordained as the sovereign remedy and mightiest instrument for the healing of all the world is the union of all its peoples in one universal Cause, one common Faith.