The increase in the numbers of Board members will inevitably
be reflected in an increase in the needs of the Continental Funds… we feel sure
that you [National Spiritual Assemblies] will do your utmost to meet the new
requirements, bearing in mind the importance which the beloved Guardian
attached to direct contributions to these Funds by National and Local Spiritual
Assemblies, as well as by individual believers.
- The Universal House of
Justice (From a message
dated November 1964 to the National Spiritual Assemblies of the
Baha’i world; ‘Messages from the Universal House of Justice 1963-1986’)