In the vastness and diversity of its Holy Writ; in the
number of its martyrs; in the valor of its champions; in the example set by its
followers; in the condign punishment suffered by its adversaries; in the
pervasiveness of its influence; in the incomparable heroism of its Herald; in
the dazzling greatness of its Author; in the mysterious operation of its
irresistible spirit; the Faith of Bahá’u’lláh, now [at the time of
Bahá’u’lláh’s passing] standing at the threshold of the sixth decade of its
existence, had amply demonstrated its capacity to forge ahead, indivisible and
incorruptible, along the course traced for it by its Founder, and to display,
before the gaze of successive generations, the signs and tokens of that
celestial potency with which He Himself had so richly endowed it.
- Shoghi Effendi (‘God Passes By’)
