From: Insights from Messages to the Baha’i World – by Shoghi
Effendi
Now that my long hours of rest and meditation are happily at
an end, I turn my face with renewed hope and vigor to that vast continent the
soil of which is pregnant with those seeds that our beloved Master has so
tenderly and so profusely scattered in the past. Prolonged though this period
has been, yet I have strongly felt ever since the New Day has dawned upon me
that such a needed retirement, despite the temporary dislocations it might
entail, would far outweigh in its results any immediate service I could have
humbly tendered at the Threshold of Bahá'u'lláh.
I am now confident that the energies of my beloved brethren
and sisters across the seas, far from being damped by my sudden disappearance
from the field of service, will henceforth be fully maintained, nay redoubled
in their intensity, that we may all together carry triumphantly to the
uttermost corners of the world the glorious Standard of Baha.
(Shoghi Effendi,
excerpt from a letter dated 16, December 1922; ‘Baha'i Administration’; To read
the entire letter please visit Messages
to the Baha’i World – by Shoghi Effendi)
