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A successor or vicegerent the Bab never named, an interpreter of His teachings He refrained from appointing. So transparently clear were His references to the Promised One, so brief was to be the duration of His own Dispensation, that neither the one nor the other was deemed necessary. All He did was, according to the testimony of Abdu'l- Baha in "A Traveller's Narrative," to nominate, on the advice of Baha'u'llah and of another disciple, Mirza Yahya, who would act solely as a figure- head pending the manifestation of the Promised One, thus enabling Baha'u'llah to promote, in relative security, the Cause so dear to His heart.
(28:2)
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