- The international status which the Religion of God has thus far achieved…
- The unprecedented impetus which the illustrious deeds of the American believers have lent to the onward march of the Faith;
- the intense interest which the first Mashriqu’l-Adhkár of the West is fast awakening among divers races and nations;
- the rise and steady consolidation of Bahá’í institutions in no less than forty of the most advanced countries of the world;
- the dissemination of Bahá’í literature in no fewer than twenty-five of the most widely-spoken languages;
- the success that has recently attended the nation-wide efforts of the Persian believers in the preliminary steps they have taken for the establishment, in the outskirts of the capital-city of their native land, of the third Mashriqu’l-Adhkár of the Bahá’í world;
- the measures that are being taken for the immediate formation of their first National Spiritual Assembly representing the interests of the overwhelming majority of Bahá’í adherents;
- the projected erection of yet another pillar of the Universal House of Justice, the first of its kind, in the Southern Hemisphere;
- the testimonies, both verbal and written, that a struggling Faith has obtained from Royalty, from governmental institutions, international tribunals, and ecclesiastical dignitaries;
- the publicity it has received from the charges which unrelenting enemies, both new and old, have hurled against it;
- the formal enfranchisement of a section of its followers from the fetters of Muslim orthodoxy in a country that may be regarded as the most enlightened among Islamic nations—
these afford ample proof of the growing momentum with which the invincible community of the Most Great Name is marching forward to ultimate victory.
- Shoghi Effendi (From the weighty treatise known as ‘The Dispensation of Bahá'u'lláh’, February 8, 1934; included in ‘The World Order of Baha’u’llah’)
