At Sacramento, California, on October 26, 1912, ‘Abdu’l-Bahá said: -- "Today the European continent is like an arsenal. It is a storehouse of explosives, ready for just a spark, and one spark could set aflame the whole of Europe, particularly at this time, when the Balkan question is before the world."
In many of His addresses in America and Europe He gave similar warning. In another address in California in October 1912 He said: --
"We are on the eve of the Battle of Armageddon referred to in the sixteenth chapter of Revelation. The time is two years hence, when only a spark will set aflame the
whole of Europe. The social unrest in all countries, the growing religious scepticism antecedent to the millennium, and already here, will set aflame the whole of Europe as is prophesied in the Book of Daniel and in the Book (Revelation) of John. By 1917 kingdoms will fall and cataclysms will rock the earth." (Reported by Mrs. Corinne True in The North Shore Review, September 26, 1914, Chicago, U.S.A.)"
