Truth Is for All Many are quite ready to admit that the Baha'i teachings would be a splendid thing for Persia and for the East, but imagine that for the nations of the West they are unnecessary or unsuitable.

To one who mentioned such a view, 'Abdu'l-Baha replied:-- As to the meaning of the Cause of Baha'u'llah, whatever has to do with the universal good is divine, and whatever is divine is for the universal good.

If it be true, it is for all; if not, it is for no one; therefore a divine cause of universal good cannot be limited to either the East or the West, for the radiance of the Sun of Truth illumines both the East and the West, and it makes its heat felt in the South and in the North--there is no difference between one Pole and another.

At the time of the Manifestation of Christ, the Romans and Greeks thought His Cause was especially for the Jews.

They thought they had a perfect civilization and nothing to learn from Christ's teachings, and by this false supposition many were deprived of His Grace.