sing measure, with the forces of corruption, of moral laxity,
and ingrained prejudice--such a community, in less than half a century, and
unaided by any of its sister communities, whether in the East or in the
West, has, by virtue of the celestial potency with which an all-loving
Master has abundantly endowed it, lent an impetus to the onward march of
the Cause it has espoused which the combined achievements of its
coreligionists in the West have failed to rival.

What other community, it can confidently be asked, has been instrumental
in fixing the pattern, and in imparting the original impulse, to those
administrative institutions that constitute the vanguard of the World
Order of Baha'u'llah? What other community has been capable of
demonstrating, with such consistency, the resourcefulness, the discipline,
the iron determination, the zeal and perseverance, the devotion and
fidelity, so indispensable to the erection and the continued extension of
the framework within which those nascent institutions can alone multiply
and mature? What other community has proved itself to be fired by so noble
a vision, or willing to rise to such heights of self-sacrifice, or ready
to achieve so great a measure of solidarity, as to be able to raise, in so
short a time and in the course of such crucial years, an edifice that can
well deserve to be regarded as the greatest contribution ever made by the
West to the Cause of Baha'u'llah? What other community can justifiably lay
claim to have succeeded, through the unsupported efforts of one of its
humble members, in securing the spontaneous allegiance of Royalty to its
Cause, and in winning such marvelous and written testimonies to its truth?
What other community has shown the foresight, the organizing ability, the
enthusiastic eagerness, that have been responsible for the establishment
and multiplication, throughout its territory, of those initial schools
which, as time goes by, will, on the one hand, evolve into powerful
centers of Baha'i learning, and, on the other, provide a fertile
recruiting ground for the enrichment and consolidation of its teaching
force? What other community has produced pioneers combining to such a
degree the essential qualities of audacity, of consecration, of tenacity,
of self-renunciation, and unstinted devotion, that have prompted them to
abandon their homes, and forsake their all, and scatter over the surface
of the globe, and hoist in its uttermost corners the