Centuries, nay ages, must pass away ere the Day-Star of
Truth shineth again in its mid-summer splendor, or appeareth once more in the
radiance of its vernal glory... How thankful must we be for having been made in
this Day the recipients of so overwhelming a favor! Would that we had ten
thousand lives that we might lay them down in thanksgiving for so rare a
privilege, so high an attainment, so priceless a bounty!
- ‘Abdu’l-Baha (Quoted
by Shoghi Effendi, in a message dated 8 February 1934, printed as ‘The
Dispensation of Baha'u'llah’ in ‘The World Order of Baha'u'llah’)
