Acclaim with grateful heart, on twenty-first Anniversary of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá’s
Ascension, the glorious emergence of the firmly-welded, incorruptible
American Bahá’í community from severest crisis since His passing which
the blindness of the breakers of Bahá’u’lláh’s and ‘Abdu’l-Bahá’s Covenants
has, amidst His kindred, and in the City of the Covenant, recently tragically
precipitated. Posterity will unhesitatingly recognize so spontaneous, shining,
stirring demonstration of fidelity rendered alike to the Lord of the Covenant
and to its Center as a victory more enduring, more momentous, than any
triumphs, however notable, which the standard-bearers of the Administrative
Order, the champion builders of the Temple, the stalwart executors of
the Divine Plan have achieved or may yet achieve in the closing years
of the expiring First Bahá’í Century. Nursed since birth in the lap of the
unfailing solicitude of the Center of the Covenant, torch-bearer of the
Divine Order recognized as child of that Covenant, vanguard of that
host destined to diffuse the Light of that same Covenant over the face of
the entire globe, American Bahá’í community is now assuming rightful
place at the forefront of the world-wide, loyal, unbreachable spiritual army
of Bahá’u’lláh preparing, both in the East and West, to launch still greater
campaigns, scale loftier heights, at the dawning of the Second Bahá’í
Century.
November 30, 1942
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