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In this triple world- wide effort, it should be noted, the role played by the American Baha'i community, since the passing of Abdu'l- Baha until the termination of the first Baha'i century, has been such as to lend a tremendous impetus to the development of the Faith throughout the world, to vindicate the confidence placed in its members by Abdu'l- Baha Himself, and to justify the high praise He bestowed upon them and the fond hopes He entertained for their future. Indeed so preponderating has been the influence of its members in both the initiation and the consolidation of Baha'i administrative institutions that their country may well deserve to be recognized as the cradle of the Administrative Order which Baha'u'llah Himself had envisaged and which the Will of the Center of His Covenant had called into being.
(329:2)
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