Shades of night descending on imperilled humanity are inexorably
deepening. American believers, heirs of Bahá'u'lláh's covenant, prosecutors
of `Abdu'l-Bahá's Plan, are confronted by supreme opportunity to vindicate
indestructibility of their faith, inflexibility their resolution, their
incorruptibility,
sanctity for appointed task. Anxiously, passionately entreat
them, whatever obstacles the march of tragic events may create, however
distressing barriers predicted calamities raise between them and sister
communities and possibly Faith's World Center, to unwaveringly hold aloft torch
whose infant light heralds the birth of the effulgent World Order destined to
supplant disrupting civilization.
Cablegram August 30, 1939