re fully and strikingly demonstrated, and their
beneficent influence correspondingly grows more apparent and evident, so
will the blessings, the strength and guidance bestowed by Him Who animates
and directs these processes be more abundantly vouchsafed to those who
have been called upon to utilize them, in this age, for the execution of
God's Purpose and for the ultimate redemption of a sore-stricken
travailing humanity. Many will be the setbacks, the shocks and the
disturbances, which the commotions of a convulsive age must produce; yet
no force, however violent and world-wide in its range and catastrophic in
its immediate consequences, can either halt these processes or deflect
their appointed course. How great, then, the privilege, and how staggering
the responsibility, of those who are destined to guard over them and to
bring them eventually to full fruition. Nothing short of utter, of
continuous consecration to His Will and Purpose can enable them to fulfil
their high destiny.

May 15, 1940

EMERGENCE OF SPIRITUAL WORLD ORDER

The stupendous struggle now convulsing the major part of the European
continent is progressively revealing the ominous features, and
increasingly assuming the proportions, of the titanic upheaval
foreshadowed seventy years ago by the prophetic Pen of Baha'u'llah. The
disruptive forces associated with humanity's world-shaking ordeal are
closely interrelated with the constructive potentialities inherent in the
American believers' Divinely-ordained Plan. Both are directly hastening
the emergence of the spiritual World Order stirring in the womb of a
travailing age. I entreat the American Baha'i Community, whatever the
immediate or distant repercussions of the present turmoil on their own
continent, however violent its impact upon the World Center of their
Faith, to pledge themselves anew, before the Throne of Baha'u'llah, to
discharge, with unswerving aim, unfailing courage, invincible vigor,
exemplary fidelity and ever-deepening consecration, the dual
responsibility solemnly undertaken under the Seven Year Plan. I implore
them to accelerate their efforts, increase their vigilance, deepen their
unity, multiply their heroic feats, maintain their distant outposts in the
teaching field of Latin America and expedite the termination of the last
stage in the ornamentation of the Temple. I am praying continually with
redoubled fervor.

Cablegram June 13, 1940

SUPREMELY CHALLEN