Hence the Cause, for all its spirit of growth and progress, develops slowly as regards the numbers of its active adherents.

For people are accustomed to exclusiveness and division in all affairs.

The important sanctions have ever been warrants and justifications of division.

To enter the Baha'i Movement is to leave these sanctions behind--an experience which at first invariably exposes one to new trials and sufferings, as the human ego revolts against the supreme sanction of universal love.

The scientific must associate with the simple and unlearned, the rich with the poor, the white with the colored, the mystic with the literalist, the Christian with the Jew, the Muslim with the Parsee: and on terms removing the advantage of long established presumptions and privileges.
But for this difficult experience there are glorious compensations.