Whenever Shoghi Effendi visits the Blessed Shrines, and
kneels at those Sacred Thresholds, he earnestly prays and asks God to help the
friends in this great work and pave the way for their service. Had it not been
for his tremendous work, Shoghi Effendi would have written to the friends
individually and nerved them to action. Yet his correspondence with the
Assemblies does not permit him as yet to attend to the letters of the
individual friends, so he tells us who are around him to take up that part of
his work and put on paper what he communicates to us orally.
- Shoghi Effendi (From a letter
dated January 1926 written on behalf of Shoghi Effendi to an individual
believer; ‘Messages to Canada’)
