The challenge offered by these opportunities the American believers, I feel confident, will, in addition to their answer to the teaching call voiced by ‘Abdu’l Bahá in His Tablets, unhesitatingly take up, and will, with their traditional fearlessness, tenacity, and efficiency, so respond to it as to confirm, before all the world, their title and rank as the champion-builders of the mightiest institutions of the Faith of Bahá’u’lláh.
- Shoghi Effendi (‘The Advent of Divine Justice’)