April 17

Grieve thou not over the slow advance of the Bahá’í Cause in that land. This is but the early dawn. Consider how, with the Cause of Christ, three hundred years had to go by, before its great influence was made manifest. Today, not sixty years from its birth, the light of this Faith hath been shed around the planet. 
(‘Abdu’l-Baha, ‘Selections from the Writings of ‘Abdu’l-Baha’)