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Letter of 27 January 1945 |
He was very happy to hear of the marked progress the Cause
has made in … and that you have not only a number of new
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believers but also are actively conducting fireside classes and
hold public meetings. All these are evidences of progress, and
you should feel happy and encouraged about them.
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The believers, as we all know, should endeavour to set such an
example in their personal lives and conduct that others will feel
impelled to embrace a Faith which reforms human character.
However, unfortunately, not everyone achieves easily and
rapidly the victory over self. What every believer, new or old,
should realise is that the Cause has the spiritual power to re-create
us if we make the effort to let that power influence us, and
the greatest help in this respect is prayer. We must supplicate
Bahá’u’lláh to assist us to overcome the failings in our own
characters, and also exert our own will-power in mastering
ourselves.
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He will certainly pray for the work of the beloved Cause
there and especially that new souls may be attracted and embrace
the Faith. He will also pray that the believers may, for the sake
of God, draw close to each other and not permit each other’s
short-comings to be a source of disunity and consequently a
means of depriving thirsty souls of this life-giving Message! The
world is full of evil and dark forces and the friends must not
permit these forces to get hold of them by thinking and feeling
negatively towards each other….
Undated
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