March 24. On this date in 1939, Shoghi Effendi cabled American Bahá'ís "Fresh, ominous rumblings demonstrate the inevitability and foreshadow the approach of the final eruption involving the dissolution of a lamentably defective international order... Responsibility solemn, pressing, unavoidable."

 

March 24. On this date in 1939, Shoghi Effendi cabled American Bahá'ís "Fresh, ominous rumblings demonstrate the inevitability and foreshadow the approach of the final eruption involving the dissolution of a lamentably defective international order... Responsibility solemn, pressing, unavoidable."

APPROACH OF FINAL ERUPTION Fresh, ominous rumblings demonstrate the inevitability and foreshadow the approach of the final eruption involving the dissolution of a lamentably defective international order. The privileged community of American believers forewarned, undismayed, spiritually equipped. Notwithstanding the gravity of the times, they will pursue unswervingly the divinely-chartered course, their attention undistracted, their objective unobscured, their resolve unimpaired, their support undiminished, their loyalty unsullied. The immediate obligation is to complete settlement of Delaware, Utah, Manitoba, and Nova Scotia before termination of Bahá'í administrative year. Responsibility solemn, pressing, unavoidable. 

Cablegram March 24, 1939