It is the duty and privilege of the National and Local Assemblies if they
find that the pressing requirements of their local and national budgets
have been adequately met, to encourage individuals and groups to initiate
and conduct, with their knowledge and consent, any undertaking that would
serve to enhance the work which they have set themselves to achieve. Not
content with appeals addressed to each and every believer to offer any
constructive suggestions or plan that would remedy an existing grievance,
they should, by every means in their power, stimulate the spirit of
enterprise among the believers in order to further the teaching as well as
the administrative work of the Cause. They should endeavor by personal
contact and written appeals, to imbue the body of the faithful with a deep
sense of personal responsibility, and urge every believer, whether high or
low, poor or wealthy, to conceive, formulate and execute such measures and
projects as would redound, in the eyes of their representatives, to the
power and the fair name of this sacred Cause.
In my hours of prayer at the holy Shrines, I will supplicate that the
light of Divine Guidance may illumine your path, and enable you to utilize
in the most effective manner that spirit of individual enterprise which,
once kindled in the breasts of each and every believer and directed by the
discipline of the majestic Law of Baha'u'llah, imposed upon us, will carry
our beloved Cause forward to achieve its glorious destiny.
Your true brother,
SHOGHI.
Haifa, Palestine,
February 20, 1927.
Letter of April 12, 1927.
To the members of the National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of the
United States and Canada:
Dearly-beloved friends:
Your recent communications, dated February 17 and March 2, 17 and 21, have
been received, and their perusal has served to heighten my admiration for
the unflinching determination which characterizes the concerted efforts
which you are exerting for the spread and consolidation of the Baha'i
Faith.