tical or otherwise,
might hinder or delay its ultimate and world-wide recognition.

To the status already achieved by their Faith, largely through their own
unaided efforts and accomplishments, tributes have been paid by observers
in various walks of life, whose testimony they welcome and regard as added
incentive to action in their steep and laborious ascent towards the
heights which they must eventually capture.

"Palestine," is the testimony of Prof. Norman Bentwitch, a former
Attorney-General of the Palestine Government, "may indeed be now regarded
as the land not of three but of four Faiths, because the Baha'i creed,
which has its center of faith and pilgrimage in Akka and Haifa, is
attaining to the character of a world religion. So far as its influence
goes in the land, it is a factor making for international and
inter-religious understanding." "In 1920," is the declaration made in his
testament by the distinguished Swiss scientist and psychiatrist, Dr.
Auguste Forel, "I learned at Karlsruhe of the supraconfessional world
religion of the Baha'is, founded in the Orient seventy years ago by a
Persian, Baha'u'llah. This is the real religion of 'Social Welfare'
without dogmas or priests, binding together all men of this small
terrestrial globe of ours. I have become a Baha'i. May this religion live
and prosper for the good of humanity! This is my most ardent desire."
"There is bound to be a world state, a universal language, and a universal
religion," he, moreover has stated, "The Baha'i Movement for the oneness
of mankind is, in my estimation, the greatest movement today working for
universal peace and brotherhood." "A religion," is yet another testimony,
from the pen of the late Queen Marie of Rumania, "which links all creeds
... a religion based upon the inner spirit of God... It teaches that all
hatreds, intrigues, suspicions, evil words, all aggressive patriotism
even, are outside the one essential law of God, and that special beliefs
are but surface things whereas the heart that beats with Divine love knows
no tribe nor race."

Chapter XXV: International Expansion of Teaching Activities

While the fabric of the Administrative Order of the Faith of Baha'u'llah
gradually arose, and while through the influence of unforeseen forces the
independence of the Faith was more and more definitely acknowledged by its
enemies and demonstrated by its friends, another development, no less
pregnant with consequences,