For sixty years or more anyone in Persia who dared to own allegiance to the Bab or Baha'u'llah did so at the risk of his property, his freedom and even his life.

Yet this determined and ferocious opposition could not more check the progress of the Movement than a cloud of dust could keep the sun from rising.
From one end of Persia( 42) to the other Baha'is are now to be found in almost every city and town, and even amongst the nomad tribes.

In some villages the whole population is Baha'i and in other places a large proportion of the inhabitants are believers.

Recruited from many and diverse sects, which were bitterly hostile to each other, they now form a great fellowship of friends who acknowledge brotherhood, not only with each other, but with all men everywhere, who are working for the unification and upliftment of humanity, for the removal of all prejudices and conflict, and for the establishment of the Kingdom of God in the world.
What miracle could be greater than this?
Only one, and that the accomplishment throughout the entire world of the task to which these men have set themselves.

And signs are not lacking that this greater miracle, too, is in progress.