You Bahá'í children and young people have both great
privileges and great obligations ahead of you, for your generation will be the
ones to help build up a new, better and more beautiful world after the dark
years of this war are passed. You should prepare yourselves for this great task
by trying to grasp the true meaning of the teachings and not just merely
accepting them as something you are taught. They are like a wonderful new world
of thought just beginning to be explored, and when we realize that Bahá'u'lláh
has brought teachings and laws for a thousand years to come, we can readily see
that each new generation may find some greater meaning in the writings than the
ones gone before did.
(From a letter dated 14 October 1942 written on behalf of
Shoghi Effendi to some individual believers; The Compilation of Compilations,
vol. I, Baha’i Education)
