rdly and inwardly,
that shall affect both its inner life and external conditions? For if the
character of mankind be not changed, the futility of God's universal
Manifestations would be apparent."

Did not Christ Himself, addressing His disciples, utter these words: "I
have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now. Howbeit
when He, the Spirit of Truth, is come, He will guide you into all truth"?

From the text of this recognized tradition, as well as from the words of
Christ, as attested by the Gospel, every unprejudiced observer will
readily apprehend the magnitude of the Faith which Baha'u'llah has
revealed, and recognize the staggering weight of the claim He has
advanced. No wonder if 'Abdu'l-Baha has portrayed in such lurid colors the
fierceness of the agitation that shall center in the days to come round
the nascent institutions of the Faith. We can now but faintly discern the
beginnings of that turmoil which the rise and ascendancy of the Cause of
God is destined to cast in the world.

The Greatest Drama of the World's Spiritual History

Whether in the ferocious and insidious campaign of repression and cruelty
which the rulers of Russia have launched against the upholders of the
Faith under their rule; whether in the unyielding animosity with which the
Shiites of Islam are trampling upon the sacred rights of the adherents of
the Cause in connection with Baha'u'llah's house in Ba_gh_dad; whether in
the impotent rage which has impelled the ecclesiastical leaders of the
Sunnite sect of Islam to expel our Egyptian brethren from their midst--in
all of these we can perceive the manifestations of the relentless hate
which peoples, religions, and governments entertain for so pure, so
innocent, so glorious a Faith.

Ours is the duty to ponder these things in our heart, to strive to widen
our vision, and to deepen our comprehension of this Cause, and to arise,
resolutely and unreservedly, to play our part, however small, in this
greatest drama of the world's spiritual history.

Your brother and co-worker,
Shoghi.

Haifa, Palestine,
March 21, 1930.

THE GOAL OF A NEW WORLD ORDER

The Goal of a New World Order

Fellow-believers in the Faith of Baha'u'llah:

The inexorable march of recent events has carried humanity so near to the
goal foreshadowed by Baha'u'llah that no responsible follower of His
Faith, viewing on all sides the distressing evidences of the world's
tr