Citadel of Faith
Pages 37-38
 

AMERICA TO EVOLVE UNTIL LAST TASK IS DISCHARGED
 
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Whatever the Hand of a beneficent and inscrutable Destiny has reserved for this youthful, this virile, this idealistic, this spiritually blessed and enviable nation, however severe the storms which may buffet it in the days to come in either hemisphere, however sweeping the changes which the impact of cataclysmic forces from without, and the stirrings of a Divine embryonic Order from within, will effect in its structure and life, we may, confident in the words uttered by `Abdu'l-Bahá, feel assured that that great republic--the shell that enshrines so precious a member of the world community of the followers of His Father--will continue to evolve, undivided and undefeatable, until the sum total of its contributions to the birth, the rise and the fruition of that world civilization, the child of the Most Great Peace and hallmark of the Golden Age of the Dispensation of Bahá'u'lláh, will have been made, and its last task discharged.

[June 5, 1947]