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The Mouthpiece of God
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Surely the world, contracted and transformed into a single highly
complex organism by the marvellous progress achieved in the realm
of physical science, by the world-wide expansion of commerce and
industry, and struggling, under the pressure of world economic
forces, amidst the pitfalls of a materialistic civilization, stands in
dire need of a restatement of the Truth underlying all the Revelations
of the past in a language suited to its essential requirements.
And what voice other than that of Bahá'u'lláh--the Mouthpiece of
God for this age--is capable of effecting a transformation of society
as radical as that which He has already accomplished in the
hearts of those men and women, so diversified and seemingly irreconcilable,
who constitute the body of His declared followers
throughout the world?
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That such a mighty conception is fast budding out in the minds
of men, that voices are being raised in its support, that its salient
features must fast crystallize in the consciousness of those who are
in authority, few indeed can doubt. That its modest beginnings have
already taken shape in the world-wide Administration with which
the adherents of the Faith of Bahá'u'lláh stand associated only those
whose hearts are tainted by prejudice can fail to perceive.
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Ours, dearly-beloved co-workers, is the paramount duty to continue,
with undimmed vision and unabated zeal, to assist in the final
erection of that Edifice the foundations of which Bahá'u'lláh has
laid in our hearts, to derive added hope and strength from the
general trend of recent events, however dark their immediate effects,
and to pray with unremitting fervor that He may hasten the
approach of the realization of that Wondrous Vision which constitutes
the brightest emanation of His Mind and the fairest fruit of
the fairest civilization the world has yet seen.
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Might not the hundredth anniversary of the Declaration of
the Faith of Bahá'u'lláh mark the inauguration of so vast an era in
human history?
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Your true brother,
SHOGHI
Haifa, Palestine,
November 28, 1931
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