The Edifice of this New World Order, which the Báb has
heralded, which the mind of Bahá’u’lláh has envisioned, and whose features
‘Abdu’l-Bahá, its Architect, has delineated, we, whatever our capacities,
opportunities or position, are now, at so precarious a period in the world’s
history, summoned to found and erect. The community of the Most Great Name in
the Western Hemisphere is, through the nature of its corporate life and the
scope of its exertions, assuming, beyond the shadow of a doubt, a
preponderating share in the laying of such a foundation and the erection of
such a structure. The eyes of its sister communities are fixed upon it. Their
prayers ascend on its behalf. Their hands are outstretched to lend whatever aid
lies within their power.
- Shoghi Effendi (From a letter dated May 22, 1939;
‘Messages to America’)
