The supreme necessity, and the
urgent need of the Cause of God at present, is the unity of the friends, and
their sustained and wholehearted co-operation in their task of spreading the
Divine Teachings throughout the world. It is the sacred duty of all believers
to have implicit confidence in, and support heartily, every decision passed by
their Spiritual Assemblies, whether local or central … This is surely the
foundation which must be firmly laid in the hearts of all believers the world
over, for upon this only can any constructive and permanent service be
achieved, and the edifice of the Beloved’s last instructions, as revealed in
His Will and Testament, be raised and established.”
(Shoghi Effendi, excerpt
from a letter dated 17 February 1923 to the Baha’is of London, Manchester and
Bournemouth)
