In their respective home-fronts the Baha'is of North America
should intensify the drive to attract the masses to God's Holy Cause, to
provide the means for their integration into the work of the Faith, and should
become standard-bearers of an embryonic Baha'i society which is destined to
gradually emerge under the influence of the integrating and civilizing forces
emanating from the Source of God's Revelation. Such noble objectives cannot be
fully achieved unless and until local communities become those collective
centres of unity ordained in our Writings, and every individual earnestly
strives to support the structure and ensure the stability of the Administrative
Edifice of the Faith.
- The Universal House of Justice (From a message dated 5
September 1982 to the friends gathered at the Baha'i International Conference
in Montreal; Messages from the Universal House of Justice 1963-1986)
