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To these queries we can but partly answer. Time alone can reveal the nature of the role which the institutions directly associated with the Christian Faith are destined to assume in this, the Formative Period of the Baha'i Era, this dark age of transition through which humanity as a whole is passing. Such events as have already transpired, however, are of such a nature as can indicate the direction in which these institutions are moving. We can, in some degree, appraise the probable effect which the forces operating both within the Baha'i Faith and outside it will exert upon them.
(180:2)
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