Meanwhile the fever that had seized His followers was
communicating itself to the members of the clergy and to the merchant classes,
and was invading the higher circles of society. Indeed, a wave of passionate
inquiry had swept the whole country, and unnumbered congregations were
listening with wonder to the testimonies eloquently and fearlessly related by
the Báb’s itinerant messengers. - Shoghi Effendi (Chapter 1, God Passes By)