The time is indeed
ripe for the manifold activities, wherein the servants and handmaids of
Bahá'u'lláh are so devoutly and earnestly engaged, to be harmonized and
conducted with unity, cooperation and efficiency, that the effect of such a
combined and systematized effort, through which an All-powerful Spirit is steadily
pouring, may transcend every other achievement of the past, however glorious it
has been...
- Shoghi Effendi (From a message dated March 5, 1922, published in
"Bahá'í Administration: Selected Messages 1922-1932"; The Compilation
of Compilations, vol. II, National Spiritual Assembly)
