Whatever the Hand of a beneficent and inscrutable Destiny has reserved for
this youthful, this virile, this idealistic, this spiritually blessed and
enviable nation, however severe the storms which may buffet it in the days
to come in either hemisphere, however sweeping the changes which the
impact of cataclysmic forces from without, and the stirrings of a Divine
embryonic Order from within, will effect in its structure and life, we
may, confident in the words uttered by 'Abdu'l-Baha, feel assured that
that great republic--the shell that enshrines so precious a member of the
world community of the followers of His Father--will continue to evolve,
undivided and undefeatable, until the sum total of its contributions to
the birth, the rise and the fruition of that world civilization, the child
of the Most Great Peace and hallmark of the Golden Age of the Dispensation
of Baha'u'llah, will have been made, and its last task discharged.
[June 5, 1947]