After a revolution of well nigh one hundred years what is it
that the eye encounters as one surveys the international scene and looks back
upon the early beginnings of Bahá’í history? A world convulsed by the agonies
of contending systems, races and nations, entangled in the mesh of its
accumulated falsities, receding farther and farther from Him Who is the sole
Author of its destinies, and sinking deeper and deeper into a suicidal carnage
which its neglect and persecution of Him Who is its Redeemer have precipitated.
- Shoghi Effendi (From a letter dated 28 March 1941, published as ‘The Promised
Day Is Come’)
