He [1] hath moreover written that Christians welcome those
who decide of their own accord to embrace their religion, but make no effort
and exert no pressure to this end. This, however, is a misconception. For the
Christians have exerted and continue to exert the utmost effort in teaching
their faith. Their church organizations have an expenditure of about thirty
million. Their missionaries have scattered far and wide throughout the globe
and are assiduously engaged in teaching Christianity. Thus have they compassed
the world. How numerous the schools and churches they have founded to instruct
children, yet their unavowed aim is that these children, as they acquire an
education, may also become acquainted in their early years with the Gospel of
Jesus Christ, and that the unsullied mirrors of their hearts may thus reflect
that which their teachers have purposed. Indeed the followers of no other
religion are as intent upon the propagation of their faith as the Christians.
- Baha’u’llah (‘The Tabernacle of Unity’)
[1] Mánikchí Limjí Hataria (1813–1890), also known as
Mánikchí (Manekji) Sáhib, born in India of Zoroastrian parents.
