Regarding your question about contributions: it is up to the
individual to decide; if he wishes to devote a sum to a specific purpose, he is
free to do so; but the friends should recognize the fact that too much
labelling of contributions will tie the hands of the Assembly and prevent it
from meeting its many obligations in various fields of Bahá’í activity.
- Shoghi Effendi (From a
letter 23 June 1950, written on behalf of Shoghi Effendi to the National
Spiritual Assembly of the Baha’is of Canada, ‘Messages to Canada’)
