Your letter has been received by the beloved Guardian and he
has instructed me to answer you on his behalf.
Bahá’u’lláh wrote, many, many years ago: “The vitality of men’s
belief in God is dying out in every land; nothing short of His wholesome
medicine can ever restore it. The corrosion of ungodliness is
eating into the vitals of human society; what else but the Elixir of His
potent Revelation can cleanse and revive it?”
This is the ebb of the tide. The Bahá’ís know that the tide will
turn and come in, after mankind has suffered, with mighty waves of
faith and devotion. The people will enter the Cause of God in troops,
and the whole condition will change. The Bahá’ís see this new condition
which will take place, as one on the mountain-top sees the first
glimpse of the dawn, before others are aware of it; and it is toward
that that the Bahá’ís must work.
The Guardian will pray that you may be instrumental in bringing
many of your fellow-youth into the Faith. He sends you his loving
greetings.