...great patience must be used in dealing with the childlike
members of some of these primitive races. They are innocent in heart and have
certainly had a very bad example, in many Christians, of a purely mercenary
approach to religion; but if their hearts and minds once become illumined with
the Faith they could make very fine believers.
- Shoghi Effendi (From a letter dated 29 April
1948 written on behalf of Shoghi Effendi to the National Spiritual Assembly of
the British Isles) The Compilation of Compilations, vol. II, Teaching Among
Aboriginal and Indigenous People)
