The same presentation of the teachings will not appeal to
everybody; the method of expression and the approach must be varied in
accordance with the outlook and interests of the hearer. An approach which is designed
to appeal to everybody will usually result in attracting the middle section,
leaving both extremes untouched. No effort must be spared to ensure that the
healing Word of God reaches the rich and the poor, the learned and the
illiterate, the old and the young, the devout and the atheist, and the dweller
in the remote hills and islands, the inhabitant of the teeming cities, the
suburban businessman, the labourer in the slums, the nomadic tribesman, the
farmer, the university student; all must be brought consciously with the
teaching plans of the Bahá’í Community. - The Universal House of Justice (From a message dated 31
October 1967 to all National Spiritual Assemblies, published in ‘Wellspring of
Guidance: Messages 1963-1968’; The Compilation of Compilations, vol. II, Teaching
Prominent People)
