"For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government will be upon His shoulder."
All Bahá'ís believe that this quotation from the Book of Isaiah refers to Bahá'u'llah and that the promise that in this "Day of God" the government of the world "will be upon His shoulder," shall be fulfilled when the World Order of Bahá'u'llah is ultimately established in all of its perfection and glory.
This promise has been forgotten, following the passing of Shoghi Effendi, when twenty-six of the twenty-seven Hands of the Cause, who, ignoring the fact that Shoghi Effendi had been enjoined by the provisions of the Will and Testament of 'Abdu'l-Bahá, to appoint his successor "in his own life-time," looked for a will and testament making this appointment, and upon not finding such a conventional testamentary document, immediately and tragicsally lost faith in the Covenant of Bahá'u'llah and in the immortality of the divinely-conceived and sacred "Child of the Covenant" --the Will and Testament of 'Abdu'l-Bahá-- that clearly provides for a succession of Guardians as long as the Dispensation of Bahá'u'llah endures.
Joel B. Marangella
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