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These notable developments, some synchronizing with, and others flowing from, the proclamation of the Faith of Baha'u'llah, and from the internal convulsion which the Cause had undergone, could not escape the attention of the external enemies of the Movement, who were bent on exploiting to the utmost every crisis which the folly of its friends or the perfidy of renegades might at any time precipitate. The thick clouds had hardly been dissipated by the sudden outburst of the rays of a Sun, now shining from its meridian, when the darkness of another catastrophe-- the last the Author of that Faith was destined to suffer-- fell upon it, blackening its firmament and subjecting it to one of the severest trials it had as yet experienced.
(177:1)
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