December 13, 2015

Never have I seen anyone work as hard as Shoghi Effendi


Never have I seen anyone work as hard as Shoghi Effendi, and it must be very trying to him with his universal creative energy, his world horizon, his soaring ideals, to say nothing of the unfathomable depths of knowledge and wisdom which flow like undulated waves through his sacred entity at all times, it must be a cruel restraint that he has not a greater vehicle or channel through which to pour all this power throughout the world...
- May Maxwell  (From a letter to Katherine Baldwin, Honolulu. February 1939)