Dr. Eyford explains that the book reviews—in Shoghi Effendi’s own words—“the history of the first hundred years of its [the Baha’i Faith’s] evolution [and] resolves itself into a series of internal and external crises, of varying severity, devastating in their immediate effects, but each mysteriously releasing a corresponding measure of divine power, lending thereby a fresh impulse to its unfoldment, this further unfoldment engendering in its turn a still graver calamity, followed by a still more liberal effusion of celestial grace enabling its upholders to accelerate still further its march and win in its service still more compelling victories.”

Dr. Eyford explains that the book reviews—in Shoghi Effendi’s own words—“the history of the first hundred years of its [the Baha’i Faith’s] evolution [and] resolves itself into a series of internal and external crises, of varying severity, devastating in their immediate effects, but each mysteriously releasing a corresponding measure of divine power, lending thereby a fresh impulse to its unfoldment, this further unfoldment engendering in its turn a still graver calamity, followed by a still more liberal effusion of celestial grace enabling its upholders to accelerate still further its march and win in its service still more compelling victories.”