This very briefly summarizes the story which is so intimately associated with the spirit of Gleanings. The reader may be further assisted by the fact that the contents of Gleanings may be divided into five parts. Part one, pages 1-46, proclaims this age as the “Day of God.” “The advent of such a Revelation hath been heralded in all the sacred Scriptures.” This is the culminating age when the past dispensations will bear fruit as men and women the world over unite in a common faith. Part two, pages 46-136, concerns the Manifestation of God and the significance of the Manifestation in representing the attributes of God. Part three, pages 136-200, deals with basic questions concerning the soul and its immortality. Part four, pages 200-259, concerns spiritual aspects of World Order and the Most Great Peace. Part five, pages 259-346, deals with the duties of the individual and the spiritual meaning of life. Bahá’u’lláh’s teachings may be further studied in Bahá’í World Faith and in other translations of His writings. The most detailed history of the Faith is God Passes By written by Shoghi Effendi.

Gleanings is a book for meditative study. It is not a book of history and facts, but of love and spiritual power. No one can understand the faith of the thousands of martyred followers of the Báb, unless he catches the spirit of this book. No one can appreciate why thousands of Bahá’ís give up the comfort of settled homes and move into strange countries to tell the