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| Yerrinbool Baha'i Summer School 1939 |
The Pen of Baha'u'llah, the voice of 'Abdu'l-Baha, have time
and again, insistently and in terms unmistakable, warned an unheeding humanity
of impending disaster. The Community of the Most Great Name, the leaven that
must leaven the lump, the chosen remnant that must survive the rolling up of
the old, discredited, tottering ordeal, and assist in the unfoldment of a new
one in its stead, is standing ready, alert, clear-visioned, and resolute ...
(Shoghi Effendi, from a letter to the National Spiritual
Assembly of the United States and
Canada, July 5, 1938, included
in ‘Messages to America, 1932-1946’;
compilation: Lights of Guidance)
