It is my earnest hope and prayer that now at this decisive
hour of the Cause of God the friends may with clear vision and redoubled energy
endeavor to deepen still further the essential truths of the Cause in their own
lives, and then extend the sphere of their activity, endeavoring at all times
to infuse the regenerating Spirit of Baha'u'llah into the divers communities,
creeds and classes that are represented in that most cosmopolitan city [New
York] of the American continent.
(Shoghi Effendi, excerpt from a letter to the
Baha’is of New York, dated February 3, 1923; Star of the West, Vol. 14, April
1923)
