Shoghi Effendi has been very deeply grieved to learn of … resignation from both the N.S.A. and the Sydney Local Assembly, and of his request to leave altogether the Cause. He wishes me, however, to assure your Assembly not to feel discouraged at this truly sad happening, but to confidently strive to bring him back into the community. Should he persistently refuse to return, the best thing would be to leave him to himself, and to pray for him that Bahá’u’lláh may, in His infinite mercy and love, open again his eyes, and lead him out of the state of spiritual lethargy into which he has so sadly fallen.
- Shoghi Effendi (From a letter dated 4 February 1937 written on behalf of Shoghi Effendi to the NSA of Australia and New Zealand; “Messages to the Antipodes’)
