Messages to America

Loyalty to world order of Bahá’u’lláh, security of its basic institutions, both imperatively demand all its avowed supporters, particularly its champion builders of the American continent, in these days when sinister, uncontrollable forces are deepening the cleavage sundering peoples, nations, creeds, and classes, resolve despite pressure of fast crystallizing public opinion, abstain individually, collectively in word, action, informally as well as in all official utterances and publications from assigning blame, taking sides, however indirectly, in recurring political crises now agitating, ultimately engulfing human society. Grave apprehension lest cumulative 16 effect of such compromises disintegrate fabric, clog channel of grace that sustains system of God’s essentially supra-national, supernatural order so laboriously evolved, so recently established.

Cablegram September 24, 1938