Surely the world, contracted and transformed into a single highly complex
organism by the marvellous progress achieved in the realm of physical
science, by the world-wide expansion of commerce and industry, and
struggling, under the pressure of world economic forces, amidst the
pitfalls of a materialistic civilization, stands in dire need of a
restatement of the Truth underlying all the Revelations of the past in a
language suited to its essential requirements. And what voice other than
that of Baha'u'llah--the Mouthpiece of God for this age--is capable of
effecting a transformation of society as radical as that which He has
already accomplished in the hearts of those men and women, so diversified
and seemingly irreconcilable, who constitute the body of His declared
followers throughout the world?
That such a mighty conception is fast budding out in the minds of men,
that voices are being raised in its support, that its salient features
must fast crystallize in the consciousness of those who are in authority,
few indeed can doubt. That its modest beginnings have already taken shape
in the world-wide Administration with which the adherents of the Faith of
Baha'u'llah stand associated only those whose hearts are tainted by
prejudice can fail to perceive.
Ours, dearly-beloved co-workers, is the paramount duty to continue, with
undimmed vision and unabated zeal, to assist in the final erection of that
Edifice the foundations of which Baha'u'llah has laid in our hearts, to
derive added hope and strength from the general trend of recent events,
however dark their immediate effects, and to pray with unremitting fervor
that He may hasten the approach of the realization of that Wondrous Vision
which constitutes the brightest emanation of His Mind and the fairest
fruit of the fairest civilization the world has yet seen.
Might not the hundredth anniversary of the Declaration of the Faith of
Baha'u'llah mark the inauguration of so vast an era in human history?
Your true brother,
SHOGHI
Haifa, Palestine,
November 28, 1931