rder of the Faith of Baha'u'llah--the
election of the Universal House of Justice--will have been completed, the
"Kitab-i-Aqdas", the Mother-Book of His Revelation, will have been
codified and its laws promulgated, the Lesser Peace will have been
established, the unity of mankind will have been achieved and its maturity
attained, the Plan conceived by 'Abdu'l-Baha will have been executed, the
emancipation of the Faith from the fetters of religious orthodoxy will
have been effected, and its independent religious status will have been
universally recognized...

...

...we cannot fail to perceive the workings of two simultaneous processes,
generated as far back as the concluding years of the Heroic Age of our
Faith, each clearly defined, each distinctly separate, yet closely related
and destined to culminate, in the fullness of time, in a single glorious
consummation.

One of these processes is associated with the mission of the American
Baha'i community, the other with the destiny of the American nation. The
one serves directly the interests of the Administrative Order of the Faith
of Baha'u'llah...

The other process dates back to the outbreak of the First World War that
threw the Great Republic of the West into the vortex of the first stage of
a world upheaval. It received its initial impetus through the formulation
of President Wilson's Fourteen Points, closely associating for the first
time that Republic with the fortunes of the Old World. It suffered its
first set-back through the dissociation of that Republic from the
newly-born League of Nations which that President had laboured to create.
It acquired added momentum through the outbreak of the Second World War,
inflicting unprecedented suffering on that Republic, and involving it
still further in the affairs of all the continents of the globe. It was
further reinforced through the declaration embodied in the Atlantic
Charter, as voiced by one of its chief progenitors, Franklin D. Roosevelt.
It assumed a definite outline through the birth of the United Nations at
the San Francisco Conference. It acquired added significance through the
choice of the City of the Covenant itself as the seat of the newly-born
organization, through the declaration recently made by the American
President related to his country's commitments in Greece and Turkey, as
well as through the submission to the General Assembly of the United
Nations of the thorny and challenging problem of the