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19: “There are certain pillars which have been established as the unshakeable…” |
To promote knowledge is thus an inescapable duty imposed on every one
of the friends of God. It is incumbent upon that Spiritual Assembly, that
assemblage of God, to exert every effort to educate the children, so that from
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infancy they will be trained in Bahá’í conduct and the ways of God, and will,
even as young plants, thrive and flourish in the soft-flowing waters that are
the counsels and admonitions of the Blessed Beauty.
(“Selections from the Writings of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá” (Haifa: Bahá’í World Centre, 1982), section 97) [19] |