Though your number in each of these cities [USA, 1923] be
small and limited, yet by virtue of that Celestial Potency bequeathed to every
one of you by our departed Master, you are assured that ere long your small
company shall expand and wield such power and influence as no earthly power can
ever hope for or attain. Who can doubt that He is ever watching from His
Station on high over His scattered fold and is guiding and strengthening His
faithful lovers who toil and labor for the fulfilment of His word and the
realization of His purpose for mankind?
- Shoghi Effendi (From a letter dated 8
January 1923; Star of the West, vol. 14, no. 2, May 1923; Baha’i News, no. 72,
April 1933)
