He is very sorry that such undesirable things are every now
and then cropping up in ... and discouraging you in your work, keeping you from
devoting all your spare time in teaching the Cause and spreading its
principles. He does not wish you, however, to lose heart from such things. As
the Cause grows its difficulties will increase and its problems will become
more numerous. The friends, especially the older ones, should therefore try and
stand unmoved by them. In fact the more their difficulties will increase the
more they have to take courage and try to solve them. The Master has often said
that sorrows are like furrows, the deeper they go the more productive the land
becomes. If this problem of ... should be settled other problems will arise.
Are the friends to become discouraged or are they to follow the footsteps of
the Master and consider them more as chances to show their tenacity of belief
and spirit of sacrifice? In short, Shoghi Effendi wishes you to keep on
teaching the principles of the Cause no matter what problems may arise.
- Shoghi
Effendi (From a letter dated 28 December 1925, written on behalf of Shoghi
Effendi to an individual believer; printed in ‘The Unfolding Destiny’)
