As to the National Assembly, whose inescapable responsibility is to guard the integrity, coordinate the
activities, and stimulate the life, of the entire community, its chief concern
at the present moment should be to anxiously deliberate on how best to enable
both individual believers and local Assemblies to fulfil their respective
tasks. Through their repeated appeals, through their readiness to dispel all
misunderstandings and remove all obstacles, through the example of their lives,
and their unrelaxing vigilance, their high sense of justice, their humility,
consecration and courage, they must demonstrate to those whom they represent
their capacity to play their part in the progress of the Plan in which they, no
less than the rest of the community, are involved.
- Shoghi Effendi (From a
message dated 25 November 1937; ‘Messages to America’)
