The Unfolding Destiny of the British Bahá'í Community : the Messages from the Guardian of the Bahá'í Faith to the Bahá'ís of the British IslesShoghi, Effendi
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The Unfolding Destiny of the British Bahá'í Community : the Messages from the Guardian of the Bahá'í Faith to the Bahá'ís of the British Isles
Shoghi, Effendi
Bahai Faith -- Great Britain -- History -- Sources; Shoghi, Effendi, 1897-1957 -- Correspondence
As the Plan, to which the entire British community has pledged its
support, approaches its end, my heart turns with increasing longing and
expectation, towards those who so spontaneously initiated it, so
enthusiastically set it in motion, so valiantly overthrew the barriers
that confronted them in the initial stage of its unfoldment, who so
unitedly consecrated their efforts to its subsequent development, and who
are now within sight of its final consummation. I cannot believe that a
community which, motivated by so noble an impulse, capable of such
prodigious efforts, dedicated so whole-heartedly to so gigantic a task,
blessed by so many evidences of Divine assistance and guidance, enriched
by the first fruits garnered in the course of the execution of a
splendidly conceived enterprise, will allow, at the very moment when final
victory is, at long last, within sight, through a momentary relaxation of
effort, the magnificent prize of total success, to slip from its grasp,
and the fortunes of such a potentially powerful undertaking to be marred
by any feelings of impotence or exhaustion which might well, at the
eleventh hour, assail those who have for so long and in such a great
measure, expended their energies for the prosecution of so weighty and
far-reaching a Plan.
The required number of pioneers who must arise, while there is yet time,
and stop the dangerous breaches which a fate-laden Plan, now in the last
stages of its development, reveals to the eyes of its prosecutors must,
however costly the sacrifice, be instantly found, and rushed without delay
to the scene of action. The funds, which must enable these last minute
pioneers to adjust their affairs and settle down wherever most needed,
must, under no circumstances, and particularly on the part of the
well-to-do, be withheld, as the present critical situation moves towards
its climax.
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