…let every earnest upholder of the Cause of Bahá’u’lláh
realize that the storms which this struggling Faith of God must needs
encounter, as the process of the disintegration of society advances, shall be
fiercer than any which it has already experienced. Let him be aware that so
soon as the full measure of the stupendous claim of the Faith of Bahá’u’lláh
comes to be recognized by those time-honored and powerful strongholds of
orthodoxy, whose deliberate aim is to maintain their stranglehold over the
thoughts and consciences of men, this infant Faith will have to contend with
enemies more powerful and more insidious than the cruellest torture-mongers and
the most fanatical clerics who have afflicted it in the past. What foes may not
in the course of the convulsions that shall seize a dying civilization be
brought into existence, who will reinforce the indignities which have already
been heaped upon it! (Shoghi Effendi, excerpt from a letter dated March 21,
1930, ‘The World Order of Baha’u’llah’)
