“As regards the activities of the economic committee of the
National Assembly; Shoghi Effendi fully sympathizes with the
desire of some of the members to see the Committee find ways
and means to put into practice the economic teachings of the
Cause, as explained in some of the recorded Writings and Sayings
of Bahá’u’lláh and the Master. But he believes that the
time is not yet ripe for such activities. First we have to study
the economic teachings in the light of modern problems more
thoroughly so that we may advocate what the Founders of the
Faith say and not what we conjecture from Their Writings.
There is great difference between sounding a great general
principle and finding its application to actual prevailing conditions.
Secondly, the Cause is not financially in a position to
launch itself in such undertakings at present. Such plans need
great financial backing to be worked out in a permanent form.
In time, Shoghi Effendi hopes all these things will come to pass.
For the present we have to consolidate our basic institutions
and spread the teachings and spirit of the Faith among the
public.”
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