To the mounting tide of trials which laid low the Báb, to
the long-drawn-out calamities which rained on Bahá’u’lláh, to the warnings
sounded by both the Herald and the Author of the Bahá’í Revelation, must be
added the sufferings which, for no less than seventy years, were endured by
‘Abdu’l-Bahá, as well as His pleas, and entreaties, uttered in the evening of
His life, in connection with the dangers that increasingly threatened the whole
of mankind.
- Shoghi Effendi (From a letter dated March 28, 1941, published as:
‘The Promised One Is Come’)
