Bahai Faith -- North America; Shoghi, Effendi, 1897-1957 -- Correspondence
ensuring the continual flow, of pioneers, so essential for the
safeguarding of the prizes won in the course of the several campaigns of a
world-girdling Crusade, and of combatting the evil forces which a
relentless and all-pervasive materialism, the cancerous growth of militant
racialism, political corruption, unbridled capitalism, wide-spread
lawlessness and gross immorality, are, alas, unleashing, with ominous
swiftness, amongst various classes of the society to which the members of
this community belong.
The administrative strongholds of a Faith, bound to be subjected on the
one hand, to a severe spiritual challenge from within, through the
inevitable impact of these devastating influences on its infant strength,
and, on the other, to the onslaught of ecclesiastical leaders, the
traditional defenders of religious orthodoxy from without, must be
multiplied and reinforced for the purpose of warding off the inevitable
attacks of the assailants, of vindicating the ideals and principles which
animate their defenders, and of ensuring the ultimate victory and
ascendency of the Faith itself over the nefarious elements seeking to
undermine it from within, and its powerful detractors aiming at its
extinction from without.
Nor must the material resources, so vitally required to meet the challenge
of a continually expanding Faith, be, for a moment, either ignored,
neglected, or underestimated—resources which a home front, materially and
adequately replenished by a steady and marked influx of active and
wholehearted supporters from all ranks of society, can, in the long run,
provide. As the imperative needs of a Faith, now irresistibly advancing in
every direction, multiply, a corresponding increase in the financial means
at the disposal of its national administrators directing and controlling
its operations, within and beyond the confines of their homeland, to meet
these essential and urgent requirements, must be ensured, if its onward
march is not to be either halted or slowed down.
MIGHTY AND HISTORIC ENTERPRISES
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