The stupendous struggle now convulsing the major part of the European
continent is progressively revealing the ominous features, and increasingly
assuming the proportions, of the titanic upheaval foreshadowed seventy
years ago by the prophetic Pen of Bahá’u’lláh. The disruptive forces
associated with humanity’s world-shaking ordeal are closely interrelated with
the constructive potentialities inherent in the American believers’
Divinely-ordained Plan. Both are directly hastening the emergence of the
spiritual World Order stirring in the womb of a travailing age. I entreat the
American Bahá’í Community, whatever the immediate or distant repercussions of
the present turmoil on their own continent, however violent its impact upon
the World Center of their Faith, to pledge themselves anew, before the
Throne of Bahá’u’lláh, to discharge, with unswerving aim, unfailing courage,
invincible vigor, exemplary fidelity and ever-deepening consecration,
the dual responsibility solemnly undertaken under the Seven Year Plan. I
implore them to accelerate their efforts, increase their vigilance, deepen
their unity, multiply their heroic feats, maintain their distant outposts in
the teaching field of Latin America and expedite the termination of the
last stage in the ornamentation of the Temple. I am praying continually
with redoubled fervor.
Cablegram June 13, 1940
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