Whatever may befall this infant Faith of God in future
decades or in succeeding centuries, whatever the sorrows, dangers and
tribulations which the next stage in its world-wide development may engender,
from whatever quarter the assaults to be launched by its present or future
adversaries may be unleashed against it, however great the reverses and
setbacks it may suffer, we, who have been privileged to apprehend, to the
degree our finite minds can fathom, the significance of these marvelous
phenomena associated with its rise and establishment, can harbor no doubt that
what it has already achieved in the first hundred years of its life provides
sufficient guarantee that it will continue to forge ahead, capturing loftier
heights, tearing down every obstacle, opening up new horizons and winning still
mightier victories until its glorious mission, stretching into the dim ranges
of time that lie ahead, is totally fulfilled.
(Shoghi Effendi, ‘God Passes By’;
The Compilation of Compilations, vol. II, Opposition)
