If we are to avoid becoming entrammeled in the enervating
coils of cynicism which are a characteristic of this age of transition, we
must, as the "custodians of...the forces of love", ground our efforts
in indomitable faith. In the future the Cause of God will spread throughout
America; millions will be enlisted under its banner and race prejudice will
finally be exorcised from the body politic. Of this have no doubt. It is
inexorable, because it is the Will of Almighty God. However, as the House of
Justice has been trying to get the friends to understand for some time, the
necessary precondition to translation of our community's social vision into
reality is a massive expansion in the number of committed, deepened believers
who are well-grounded in the essentials of the Cause. Those who fail to
comprehend the urgency assigned to the objective of achieving a large expansion
have obviously failed to appreciate the moral imperative behind this aim.
Parallel to the process of large - scale enrollment, the
institutions of the Faith, including those at the grassroots of the community,
will gradually come to function with greater efficiency and increasing harmony,
thereby enhancing their potential in stimulating the processes of social
development.
- The Universal House of Justice (From a letter dated 1 April 1996, written on behalf of the
Universal House of Justice to an individual believer)
