bt. That its modest beginnings have already taken shape
in the world-wide Administration with which the adherents of the Faith of
Baha'u'llah stand associated only those whose hearts are tainted by
prejudice can fail to perceive.

Ours, dearly-beloved co-workers, is the paramount duty to continue, with
undimmed vision and unabated zeal, to assist in the final erection of that
Edifice the foundations of which Baha'u'llah has laid in our hearts, to
derive added hope and strength from the general trend of recent events,
however dark their immediate effects, and to pray with unremitting fervor
that He may hasten the approach of the realization of that Wondrous Vision
which constitutes the brightest emanation of His Mind and the fairest
fruit of the fairest civilization the world has yet seen.

Might not the hundredth anniversary of the Declaration of the Faith of
Baha'u'llah mark the inauguration of so vast an era in human history?

Your true brother,
SHOGHI

Haifa, Palestine,
November 28, 1931

THE GOLDEN AGE OF THE CAUSE OF BAHA'U'LLAH

The Golden Age of the Cause of Baha'u'llah

To the beloved of God and the handmaids of the Merciful throughout the
United States and Canada.

Friends and fellow-defenders of the Faith of Baha'u'llah:

Significant as have been the changes that have lately overtaken a swiftly
awakening humanity at this transitional phase of its checkered history,
the steady consolidation of the institutions which the administrators of
the Faith of Baha'u'llah are, in every land, toiling to establish should
appear no less remarkable to even those who are as yet imperfectly
acquainted with the obstacles they have had to surmount or the meagre
resources on which they could rely.

That a Faith which, ten years ago, was severely shaken by the sudden
removal of an incomparable Master should have, in the face of tremendous
obstacles, maintained its unity, resisted the malignant onslaught of its
ill-wishers, silenced its calumniators, broadened the basis of its
far-flung administration, and raised upon it institutions symbolizing its
ideals of worship and service, should be deemed sufficient evidence of the
invincible power with which the Almighty has chosen to invest it from the
moment of its inception.

That the Cause associated with the name of Baha'u'llah feeds itself upon
those hidden springs of celestial strength which no force of human
personality, whatever its glamour, can repla