That the Cause of God should in the days to come witness
many a challenging hour and pass through critical stages in preparation for the
glories of its promised ascendancy in the New World has been time and again
undeniably affirmed by our departed Master, and is abundantly proved to us all
by its heroic past and turbulent history....
- Shoghi Effendi (From a letter
published in "Bahá'í Administration: Selected Messages 1922-1932")
