Unnoticed by the great world, unfeared as yet by the forces of Evil that now hold
revel on the earth, the cause of Baha'u'llah
— of God in His Glory made manifest among men — confident, resplendent
and irresistible, lifts its young strength amid the wrecks and ruins of an
outworn and dissolving civilization.
Neither today nor at
any period throughout the past has God left His people bereft of comfort or
deprived of guidance. Age after age without intermission He has sent His
Messengers to renew the glad tidings of the nearness and the love of God and to
give to the people the help and the counsel of which they stood in need. The
gates of His mercy have never been closed, and His grace has been poured down
upon mankind continuously.
But the present age stands alone in the richness and in the
splendor of the gifts that have been bestowed upon it. The sum of all the
bounties of the past will not equal in glory the bounty which is lavished upon
this dawning Dispensation. Never before has the Word of God sounded so full and
clear. Never before has Revelation been so copious, or so comprehensive. Never
before have all the predictions of the Scriptures concerning God's greatest
advent been fulfilled in their completeness. Never has the power of the Most
High been asserted with such prevailing force. And though all the High Prophets
since the world began have promised that one day God's will would reign
victorious over a regenerated and beatified earth, no Messenger before
Baha'u'llah ever proclaimed that God's victory had been won or that the Golden
Age had dawned.
