How great, how very great
is the Cause; how very fierce the onslaught of all the peoples and kindreds of
the earth! Erelong shall the clamor of the multitude throughout Africa,
throughout America, the cry of the European and of the Turk, the groaning of
India and China be heard from far and near. One and all they shall arise with
all their power to resist His Cause. Then shall the Knights of the Lord,
assisted by grace from on high, strengthened by faith, aided by the power of
understanding and reinforced by the legions of the Covenant, arise and make
manifest the truth of the verse: ‘Behold the confusion that hath befallen the
tribes of the defeated!’
(‘Abdu’l-Baha, quoted by Shoghi Effendi in a letter
dated February 12, 1927, ‘Baha’i Administration’)
