As we enter the final year of the Seven Year Plan,
[1979-1986] confidence of victory and a growing sense of the opening of a new
stage in the onward march of the Faith must arouse in every Baha'i heart
feelings of gratitude and eager expectation. Victory in the Plan is now within
sight, and at its completion the summation of its achievements may well
astonish us all. But the great, the historic feature of this period is the
emergence of the Faith from obscurity, promoted by the steadfast heroism of the
renowned, the indefatigable, dearly loved Baha'i community of Baha'u'llah's and
the Bab's native land.
- The Universal House of Justice (Ridvan 1985; ‘Messages
from the Universal House of Justice 1963-1986’)
