With regard to the problems confronting the believers; these, the Guardian
fully realizes, are by no means easy to solve. But the friends should be
confident that the very progress of the Cause will enable them to find the
necessary solution to the difficulties which appear now to so seriously
puzzle their minds.
There are two main principles which the Guardian wishes the friends to
always bear in mind and to conscientiously and faithfully follow. First is
the principle of unqualified and whole-hearted loyalty to the revealed
Word. The believers should be careful not to deviate, even a hair-breadth,
from the Teachings. Their supreme consideration should be to safeguard the
purity of the principles, tenets and laws of the Faith. It is only by this
means that they can hope to maintain the organic unity of the Cause. There
can and should be no liberals or conservatives, no moderates or extremes
in the Cause. For they are all subject to the one and the same law which
is the Law of God. This law transcends all differences, all personal or
local tendencies, moods and aspirations.
Next is the principle of complete, and immediate obedience to the
Assemblies, both local and national. It is the responsibility of these
Baha'i administrative bodies to enable the community to acquire, and
increasingly deepen in the knowledge and understanding of the Cause.
Doctrinal unity and administrative unity, these are the two chief pillars
that sustain the edifice of the Cause, and protect it from the storms of
opposition which so severely rage against it.