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Thus drew to a close the first century of the Baha'i era-- an epoch which, in its sublimity and fecundity, is without parallel in the entire field of religious history, and indeed in the annals of mankind. A process, God- impelled, endowed with measureless potentialities, mysterious in its workings, awful in the retribution meted out to every one seeking to resist its operation, infinitely rich in its promise for the regeneration and redemption of human kind, had been set in motion in Shiraz, had gained momentum successively in Tihran, Baghdad, Adrianople and Akka, had projected itself across the seas, poured its generative influences into the West, and manifested the initial evidences of its marvelous, world- energizing force in the midst of the North American continent.
(402:7)
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