"The world is in travail, and its agitation waxeth day
by day. ... Such shall be its plight,
that to disclose it now would not be meet and seemly." The shattering
blows dealt to the old, divisive system of the planet and the constantly
accelerating decline in civilized life since that dire warning was uttered by
Baha'u'llah a hundred years ago, have brought mankind to its present appalling
condition.
- The Universal House of Justice (From a message dated 2 June 1982,
addressed to the friends gathered at the International Conference in Dublin;
‘Messages from the Universal House of Justice 1963-1986’)
