It is admittedly evident that in every age and dispensation
those whose mission it is either to proclaim the Truth or to prepare the way for
its acceptance, have invariably been opposed by a number of powerful
adversaries, who challenged their authority and attempted to pervert their
teachings. These have, either by fraud or pretence, calumny or oppression,
succeeded for a time in beguiling the uninformed and in misleading the feeble.
Desirous of maintaining their hold over the thoughts and consciences of men,
they have, so long as the Faith of God remained concealed, been able to enjoy
the fruits of a fleeting and precarious ascendancy. No sooner was the Faith
proclaimed, however, than they found, to their utter dismay, the effects of
their dark plottings pale before the dawning light of the new Day of God.
Before the fierce rays of that rising Orb all their machinations and evil deeds
faded into nothingness and were soon a thing forgotten.
(Chapter 2, ‘The
Dawn-Breakers’)
