Amos saith:  “The Lord will roar from Zion, and utter His Voice from Jerusalem; and the habitations of the shepherds shall mourn, and the top of Carmel shall wither.”  Carmel, in the Book of God, hath been designated as the Hill of God, and His Vineyard.  It is here that, by the grace of the Lord of Revelation, the Tabernacle of Glory hath been raised.  Happy are they that attain thereunto; happy they that set their faces towards it.  And likewise He saith:  “Our God will come, and He will not be silent.”

O Shay_kh_!  Reflect upon these words addressed by Him Who is the Desire of the world to Amos.  He saith:  “Prepare to meet thy God, O Israel, for, lo, He that formeth the mountains and createth the wind, and declareth unto man what is his thought, that maketh the morning darkness, and treadeth upon the high places of the earth, the Lord, the God of Hosts, is His name.”  He saith that He maketh the morning darkness.  By this is meant that if, at the time of the Manifestation of Him Who conversed on Sinai anyone were to regard himself as the true morn, he will, through the might and power of God, be turned into darkness.  He truly is the false dawn, though believing himself to be the true one.  Woe unto him, and woe unto such as follow him without a clear token from God, the Lord of the worlds.

Isaiah saith:  “The Lord alone shall be exalted in that Day.”  Concerning the greatness of the Revelation He saith:  “Enter into the rock, and hide thee in the dust, for fear of the Lord, and for the glory of His majesty.”  And in another connection He saith:  “The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose.  It shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and singing:  the glory of Lebanon shall be given unto it, the splendor of Carmel and Sharon, they shall see the glory of the Lord, and the splendor of our God.”

These passages stand in need of no commentary.  They are shining and manifest as the sun, and glowing and luminous as light itself.  Every fair-minded person is led, by the fragrance of these words, unto the garden of understanding, and attaineth unto that from which most men are veiled and debarred.  Say:  Fear God, O people, and follow not the doubts of such as shout aloud, who have broken the Covenant of God and His Testament, and denied His mercy that hath preceded all that are in the heavens and all that are on earth.

And likewise, He saith:  “Say to them that are of a fearful heart:  be strong, fear not, behold your God.”  This blessed verse is a proof of the greatness of the Revelation, and of the greatness of the Cause, inasmuch as the blast of the trumpet must needs spread confusion throughout the world, and fear and trembling amongst all men.  Well is it with him who hath been illumined with the light of trust and detachment.  The tribulations of that Day will not hinder or alarm him.  Thus hath the Tongue of Utterance spoken, as bidden by