Shoghi Effendi wishes me to acknowledge the receipt of your
letter dated June 19th 1926. The sentiment it expressed, the feeling it
revealed, the words used all seemed to go down into one’s heart. Here stands
the Bahá’í Cause with absolute need of true and ardent servants who are ready
to raise its call and invite the heedless people to the acceptance of its
teachings. Few are those who have already taken their allegiance to the Master.
But even smaller in number is that group of those who have also the freedom to
go out and teach it to others.
There is, however, one hope. God is not heedless to the
sighings of the soul. When we desire such an altruistic thing, when we pray for
it ardently and truly seek some outlet for the realization of our hopes, sooner
or later the occasion will present itself. We are told that the way to Paradise
is thorny, but we are also assured that if we persist we shall attain it and
obtain our victory.
- Shoghi Effendi (From a letter dated 9 August 1926 to an
individual believer; ‘Messages to Canada’)
