...I earnestly appeal to every one of you ... to make ...
yet another effort, this time more spontaneous and selfless than before, and
endeavour to approach your task .. . with that purity of spirit that can alone
obtain our Beloved's most cherished desire. Let us recall His ['Abdu'l-Baha's] explicit and
often repeated assurances that every Assembly elected in that rarefied
atmosphere of selflessness and detachment is in truth appointed of God...
- Shoghi Effendi (From a letter dated 23 February 1924 to the Bahá'ís in North America, published in
‘Bahá'í Administration: Selected Messages 1922-1932’; The Compilation of
Compilations, vol. I, Baha’i Elections)
