Let us take heart and be thankful to our beloved ‘Abdu’l-Bahá,
as we remember his manifold blessings and unfailing care and protection, ever
since the hour of his departure from our midst. The flames of sedition, so
maliciously kindled in the past by those who have dared to flout his will, are
gone out for ever, and the fondest hopes of these evil plotters are now
abandoned, doomed never to revive. He has indeed redeemed his promise!
It seemed not a long time ago that their agitation, so
violently renewed immediately after the passing of our Beloved, would for a
time confuse the Divine Message of Bahá’u’lláh, obscure His Covenant, retard
the progress of His Cause, and shatter its unity; and yet how well we see them
all today, not through our efforts, but by their own folly, and above all, by
the intervention of the hidden hand of God, reduced to the vilest and most
humiliating position.
- Shoghi Effendi (From a message dated December 2, 1923;
‘Letters from the Guardian to Australia and New Zealand’)
