All others are servants unto Him and do His bidding." By this statement, and by numerous others in which 'Abdu'l-Baha emphasized the importance of basing one's knowledge of the Faith upon His general Tablets, a foundation for unity of belief was established, with the result that the differences of understanding caused by reference to His Tablets to individuals, in which the Master answered personal questions, rapidly disappeared.

Above all, the establishment of a definite administrative order, with the Guardian at its head, transferred to institutions all authority previously wielded in the form of prestige and influence by individual Baha'is in the various local groups.
Exemplar of Baha'i Life Baha'u'llah was preeminently the Revealer of the Word.

His forty years' imprisonment gave Him but limited opportunities of intercourse with His fellowmen.

To 'Abdu'l-Baha, therefore, fell the important task of becoming the exponent of the Revelation, the Doer of the Word, the Great Exemplar of the Baha'i life in actual contact with the world of today, in the most diverse phases of its myriad activities.

He showed that it is still possible, amid the whirl and rush of modern life, amid the self-love and struggle for material prosperity that everywhere prevail, to live the life of entire devotion to God and to the service of one's fellows, which Christ and Baha'u'llah and all the Prophets have demanded of men.