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The conclusion of this terrible conflict, the first stage in a titanic convulsion long predicted by Baha'u'llah, not only marked the extinction of Turkish rule in the Holy Land and sealed the doom of that military despot who had vowed to destroy Abdu'l- Baha, but also shattered once and for all the last hopes still entertained by the remnant of Covenant- breakers who, untaught by the severe retribution that had already overtaken them, still aspired to witness the extinction of the light of Baha'u'llah's Covenant. Furthermore, it produced those revolutionary changes which, on the one hand, fulfilled the ominous predictions made by Baha'u'llah in the Kitab- i- Aqdas, and enabled, according to Scriptural prophecy, so large an element of the "outcasts of Israel," the "remnant" of the "flock," to "assemble" in the Holy Land, and to be brought back to "their folds" and "their own border," beneath the shadow of the "Incomparable Branch," referred to by Abdu'l- Baha in His "Some Answered Questions," and which, on the other hand, gave birth to the institution of the League of Nations, the precursor of that World Tribunal which, as prophesied by that same "Incomparable Branch," the peoples and nations of the earth must needs unitedly establish.
(305:2)
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