O ye
apostles of Bahá’u’lláh! May my life be sacrificed for you!... Behold the
portals which Bahá’u’lláh hath opened before you! Consider how exalted and
lofty is the station you are destined to attain, how unique the favors with
which you have been endowed... My thoughts are turned towards you, and my heart
leaps within me at your mention. Could ye know how my soul gloweth with your
love, so great a happiness would flood your hearts as to cause you to become
enamored with each other.
(‘Abdu’l-Baha, from a Tablet “revealed in honor of
the believers of the United States and Canada”, quoted by Shoghi Effendi in a
letter dated June 5, 1947; ‘Citadel of Faith’)
