Nor should a survey of the outstanding features of so blessed
and fruitful a ministry omit mention of the prophecies which the unerring pen
of the appointed Center of Bahá'u'lláh's Covenant has recorded. These
foreshadow the fierceness of the onslaught that the resistless march of the
Faith must provoke in the West, in India and in the Far East when it meets the
time-honored sacerdotal orders of the Christian, the Buddhist and Hindu
religions. They foreshadow the turmoil which its emancipation from the fetters
of religious orthodoxy will cast in the American, the European, the Asiatic and
African continents....
- Shoghi Effendi (‘God Passes By’; The Compilation of
Compilations, vol. II, Opposition)
