Its [North America] members, the executors of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá’s
Plan, the champion-builders of Bahá’u’lláh’s embryonic Order, the torchbearers
of a world-girdling civilization, must, in the years immediately ahead, bestir
themselves, and, as bidden by ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, “increase” their exertions “a
thousandfold,” lay bare further vistas in the “range” of their “future
achievements” and of their “unspeakably glorious” mission, and hasten the day
when, as prophesied by Him, their community will “find itself securely
established upon the throne of an everlasting dominion,” when “the whole earth”
will be stirred and shaken by the results of its “achievements” and “resound
with the praises of majesty and greatness,” when America will “evolve into a
center from which waves of spiritual power will emanate, and the throne of the
Kingdom of God will, in the plenitude of its majesty and glory, be firmly
established.”
- Shoghi Effendi (From a message dated June 5, 1947; ‘Citadel of
Faith’)
