Regarding ...'s appeal: the Guardian feels the best course
of action in this matter is to ask both of the believers concerned to forgive
and forget the entire matter. He does not want the friends to form the habit of
taking up a kind of Bahá'í litigation against each other. Their duties to
humanity are too sacred and urgent in these days, when the Cause is struggling
to spread and assert its independence, for them to spend their precious time,
and his precious time, in this way. Ask them, therefore, to unite, forget the
past, and serve as never before.
- Shoghi Effendi (From a letter dated 22 July 1947 written on
behalf of Shoghi Effendi to the National Spiritual Assembly of Australia and
New Zealand; The Compilation of Compilations, vol. II, Living the Life)
