...How great, how very great is the Cause! How very fierce
the onslaught of all the peoples and kindreds of the earth. Ere long shall the
clamor of the multitude throughout Africa, throughout America, the cry of the
European and of the Turk, the groaning of India and China, be heard from far
and near. One and all, they shall arise with all their power to resist His
Cause. Then shall the knights of the Lord, assisted by His grace from on high,
strengthened by faith, aided by the power of understanding, and reinforced by
the legions of the Covenant, arise and make manifest the truth of the verse:
"Behold the confusion that hath befallen the tribes of the defeated!"
- ‘Abdu’l-Baha (Cited in Shoghi Effendi, ‘The World Order of Bahá'u'lláh:
Selected Letters’; The Compilation of Compilations, vol. II, Opposition)
