ve that unity is not even created. Will it be
America, will it be one of the countries of Europe, who will arise to
assume the leadership essential to the shaping of the destinies of this
troubled age? Will America allow any of her sister communities in East or
West to achieve such ascendancy as shall deprive her of that spiritual
primacy with which she has been invested and which she has thus far so
nobly retained? Will she not rather contribute, by a still further
revelation of those inherent powers that motivate her life, to enhance the
priceless heritage which the love and wisdom of a departed Master have
conferred upon her?

Her past has been a testimony to the inexhaustible vitality of her faith.
May not her future confirm it?

Your true brother,
SHOGHI.

Haifa, Palestine,
April 21, 1933.

THE DISPENSATION OF BAHA'U'LLAH

The Dispensation of Baha'u'llah

To the beloved of God and the handmaids of the Merciful throughout the
West.

Fellow-laborers in the Divine Vineyard:

On the 23rd of May of this auspicious year the Baha'i world will celebrate
the 90th anniversary of the founding of the Faith of Baha'u'llah. We, who
at this hour find ourselves standing on the threshold of the last decade
of the first century of the Baha'i era, might well pause to reflect upon
the mysterious dispensations of so august, so momentous a Revelation. How
vast, how entrancing the panorama which the revolution of four score years
and ten unrolls before our eyes! Its towering grandeur well-nigh
overwhelms us. To merely contemplate this unique spectacle, to visualize,
however dimly, the circumstances attending the birth and gradual
unfoldment of this supreme Theophany, to recall even in their barest
outline the woeful struggles that proclaimed its rise and accelerated its
march, will suffice to convince every unbiased observer of those eternal
truths that motivate its life and which must continue to impel it forward
until it achieves its destined ascendancy.

Dominating the entire range of this fascinating spectacle towers the
incomparable figure of Baha'u'llah, transcendental in His majesty, serene,
awe-inspiring, unapproachably glorious. Allied, though subordinate in
rank, and invested with the authority of presiding with Him over the
destinies of this supreme Dispensation, there shines upon this mental
picture the youthful glory of the Bab, infinite in His tenderness,
irresistible in His charm, unsurpassed i