If we but turn our gaze to the high qualifications of the
members of Baha’i Assemblies, as enumerated in Abdu’l Baha’s Tablets, we are
filled with feelings of unworthiness and dismay, and would feel truly
disheartened but for the comforting thought that if we rise to play nobly our
part every deficiency in our lives will be more than compensated by the all-conquering
spirit of His grace and power. Hence it is incumbent upon the chosen delegates
to consider without the least trace of passion and prejudice, and irrespective
of any material consideration, the names of only those who can best combine the
necessary qualities of unquestioned loyalty, of selfless devotion, of a
well-trained mind, of recognized ability and mature experience.
- Shoghi
Effendi (From a message dated June 3rd, 1925 addressed to the 1925 Baha’i
Convention at Green Acre; Baha’i News no. 6, July-August, 1925; ‘Baha’i
Administration’)
