Shoghi Effendi has
been very deeply grieved to learn of Mr. ...’s resignation from both the N.S.A.
and the Sydney local Assembly, and of his request to leave altogether the
Cause. He wishes me, however, to assure your Assembly not to feel discouraged
at this truly sad happening, but to confidently strive to bring him back into
the community. Should he persistently refuse to return, the best thing would be
to leave him to himself, and to pray for him that Bahá’u’lláh may, in His
infinite mercy and love, open again his eyes, and lead him out of the state of
spiritual lethargy into which he has so sadly fallen.
- Shoghi Effendi (From a message dated 2 February, 1937,
written on behalf of Shoghi Effendi; ‘Messages to Australia and New Zealand’)
