Wilhelm I

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"In a celebrated passage addressed to William I, King of Prussia and newly-acclaimed emperor of a unified Germany, He, in His Kitáb-i-Aqdas, bids the sovereign hearken to His Voice, the Voice of God Himself; warns him to take heed lest his pride debar him from recognizing 'the Day-Spring of Divine Revelation,' and admonishes him to 'remember the one (Napoleon III) whose power transcended' his power, and who 'went down to dust in great loss.' Furthermore, in that same Book, apostrophizing the 'banks of the Rhine,' He predicts that 'the swords of retribution' would be drawn against them, and that 'the lamentations of Berlin' would be raised, though at that time she was 'in conspicuous glory.'" [Shoghi Effendi, God Passes By, p. 207] House of Hohenzollern, King of Prussia until 1871 and then first German Emperor (Kaiser Wilhelm I) from 1871-1888; He and his chancellor Otto von Bismarck united Germany; [Wikipedia]