Bahai Faith -- North America; Shoghi, Effendi, 1897-1957 -- Correspondence
No less attention, while this emergency period taxes, to an unprecedented
degree, the combined resources of the envied trustees of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá’s
Divine Plan, should be directed to the vast network of Bahá’í enterprises
initiated throughout Latin America, where the work so nobly conceived, so
diligently prosecuted, so conspicuously blessed, is rapidly nearing the
first stage of its fruition. The flow of pioneers, so vital in all its
aspects, and which has yielded such inestimable benefits at the early
stages of this widely ramified enterprise, must, however urgent the other
tasks already shouldered by an overburdened yet unfailingly protected
community, be neither arrested nor slacken. The outpost of the newly born
communities, established in the Straits of Magallanes in the South, must
be held with undiminished vigor and determination. The major task of
ensuring the breadth and solidity of the foundations laid for the
establishment of two national Bahá’í assemblies, through the preservation
of the present assemblies, groups and isolated centers, and the
restoration of any of these vital centers, now dissolved, to their former
status, must be scrupulously watched and constantly encouraged. The
process of the dissemination of Bahá’í literature, of Bahá’í publication
and translation, must continue unabated, however much the sacrifice
involved. The newly fledged institutions of teaching and regional
committees, of summer schools and of congresses, must be continually
encouraged and increasingly supported by teachers as well as
administrators, by pioneers from abroad, as well as by the native
believers themselves. The highly salutary and spiritually beneficent
experiment of encouraging a more active participation by these newly won
supporters of the Faith in Latin America, and a greater assumption of
administrative responsibility on their part, in the ever expanding
activities to be entrusted wholly to their care in the years to come,
should be, in particular, developed, systematized and placed on a sure and
unassailable foundation. Above all, the paramount duty of deepening the
spiritual life of these newly fledged, these precious and highly esteemed
co-workers, and of enlightening their minds regarding the essential
verities enshrined in their Faith, its fundamental institutions, its
history and genesis—the twin Covenants of Bahá’u’lláh and of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá,
the present Administrative Order, the future World Order, the Laws of the
Most Holy Book, the inseparable institutions of the Guardianship and of
the Universal House of Justice, the salient events of the Heroic and
Formative Ages of the Faith, and its relationship with the Dispensations
that have preceded it, its attitude toward the social and political
organizations by which it is surrounded—must continue to constitute the
most vital aspect of the great spiritual Crusade launched by the champions
of the Faith from among the peoples of their sister republics in the
South.
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