The fate-laden world ordeal is moving in steady, pre-ordained crescendo.
The blaze of a seemingly uncontrollable fire is leaping, ravaging
last remaining great Power on European continent. Shadows of God’s
retributive act are fast gathering. As the arena of world convulsing contest
broadens; as wounds it inflicts deepen; as issues it raises aggravate and
multiply, so will the operation of the spiritual forces, destined to cast the
burden of a travailing age, be accelerated. As the old world sinks beneath
the weight of a crumbling old order, so must new world exponents of
Bahá’u’lláh’s nascent, integrating World Order climb loftier summits of
their sublime calling. I urgently, insistently plead that all American
believers, particularly the National Teaching and Inter-America Committees,
above all the National elected representatives, arm their souls, labor more
resolutely, cooperate more closely, scatter more widely, sacrifice more
abundantly, to insure, during remaining years of Seven Year Plan, the
brilliant discharge of the one remaining obligation of their dual task, whose
consummation must signalize the termination and seal the triumph of
First Bahá’í Century.
Cablegram July 4, 1941
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