And now, His Holiness Baha’u’llah, when He ascended, had half a million souls who were self-sacrificing and all were perfectly firm and staunch! Consider what a marvelous potency this will exercise.
- ‘Abdu’l-Baha (From a talk, October 5, 1912 San Francisco, California; Star of the West, vol. 10, no. 13, November 4, 1919)