April 21. On this date in 1933, Shoghi Effendi wrote "America and the Most Great Peace", a 23-page letter later included in The World Order of Bahá'u'lláh

 

April 21. On this date in 1933, Shoghi Effendi wrote "America and the Most Great Peace", a 23-page letter later included in The World Order of Bahá'u'lláh

In the letter, he begins by noting the various of attacks on the Bahá’í Faith. He then draws a parallel with the early histories of Christianity and Islam in describing the gravitation of Bahá’í activity "away from its cradle, to the shores of the American continent" and mentioning that the Tablets of the Divine Planwere addressed specifically to North American believers. He then refers to Covenant-breakers, "Thriving for a time through the devices which their scheming minds had conceived and supported by the ephemeral advantages which fame, ability or fortune can confer these notorious exponents of corruption and heresy have succeeded in protruding for a time their ugly features only to sink, as rapidly as they had risen, into the mire of an ignominious end." In the remainder of the letter Shoghi Effendi obsequiously adulates the American Bahá’í community.