If we are to avoid becoming entrammeled
in the enervating coils of cynicism which are a characteristic of this age of
transition, we must, as the "custodians of...the forces of love",
ground our efforts in indomitable faith. In the future the Cause of God will
spread throughout America; millions will be enlisted under its banner and race
prejudice will finally be exorcised from the body politic. Of this have no
doubt. It is inexorable, because it is the Will of Almighty God. However, as
the House of Justice has been trying to get the friends to understand for some
time, the necessary precondition to translation of our community's social
vision into reality is a massive expansion in the number of committed, deepened
believers who are well-grounded in the essentials of the Cause. Those who fail
to comprehend the urgency assigned to the objective of achieving a large
expansion have obviously failed to appreciate the moral imperative behind this
aim.
(From a letter dated April 1, 1996, written on behalf of the Universal
House of Justice to an individual believer)
