...when the very progress of the Cause on the one hand, and
the corresponding decline in ecclesiastical organizations on the other will
inevitably incite Christian ecclesiastical leaders to vehemently oppose and
undermine the Faith, the believers will then have a real chance to defend and
vindicate the Cause....
- Shoghi Effendi (From a letter dated 25 May 1938 written on behalf of
Shoghi Effendi to the National Spiritual Assembly of the United States and
Canada)
