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So sad and moving a spectacle, bewildering as it must be to every observer unaware of the purposes, the prophecies, and promises of Baha'u'llah, far from casting dismay into the hearts of His followers, or paralyzing their efforts, cannot but deepen their faith, and excite their enthusiastic eagerness to arise and display, in the vast field traced for them by the pen of 'Abdu'l-Baha, their capacity to play their part in the work of universal redemption proclaimed by Baha'u'llah. Every instrument in the administrative machinery which, in the course of several years, they have so laboriously erected must be fully utilized, and subordinated to the end for which it was created. The Temple, that proud embodiment of so rare a spirit of self-sacrifice, must likewise be made to play its part, and contribute its share to the teaching campaign designed to embrace the entire Western Hemisphere.
(40:1)
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