The historian of the future, viewing more widely and in
fuller perspective the momentous happenings of the Apostolic and Formative Ages
of the Faith of Bahá’u’lláh, will no doubt be able to evaluate accurately and
to describe in a circumstantial manner the causes, the implications and the
effects of these Divine Messages [to the Kings during the Ministries of the Báb
and Baha’u’llah] which, in their scope and effectiveness, have certainly no
parallel in the religious annals of mankind.
- Shoghi Effendi (‘The Promised Day
Is Come’)
