And as we make an effort to demonstrate that love to the world may we also
clear our minds of any lingering trace of unhappy misunderstandings that
might obscure our clear conception of the exact purpose and methods of
this new world order, so challenging and complex, yet so consummate and
wise. We are called upon by our beloved Master in His Will and Testament
not only to adopt it unreservedly, but to unveil its merit to all the
world. To attempt to estimate its full value, and grasp its exact
significance after so short a time since its inception would be premature
and presumptuous on our part. We must trust to time, and the guidance of
God's Universal House of Justice, to obtain a clearer and fuller
understanding of its provisions and implications. But one word of warning
must be uttered in this connection. Let us be on our guard lest we measure
too strictly the Divine Plan with the standard of men. I am not prepared
to state that it agrees in principle or in method with the prevailing
notions now uppermost in men's minds, nor that it should conform with
those imperfect, precarious, and expedient measures feverishly resorted to
by agitated humanity. Are we to doubt that the ways of God are not
necessarily the ways of man? Is not faith but another word for implicit
obedience, whole-hearted allegiance, uncompromising adherence to that
which we believe is the revealed and express will of God, however
perplexing it might first appear, however at variance with the shadowy
views, the impotent doctrines, the crude theories, the idle imaginings,
the fashionable conceptions of a transient and troublous age? If we are to
falter or hesitate, if our love for Him should fail to direct us and keep
us within His path, if we desert Divine and emphatic principles, what hope
can we any more cherish for healing the ills and sicknesses of this world?
Pending the establishment of the Universal House of Justice, whose
function it is to lay more definitely the broad lines that must guide the
future activities and administration of the Movement, it is clearly our
duty to strive to obtain as clear a view as possible of the manner in
which to conduct the affairs of the Cause, and then arise with
single-mindedness and determination to adopt and maintain it in all our
activities and labors.