We all know how often the Master and the beloved Guardian
called upon the friends to consciously strive to be more loving, more united,
more dedicated and prayerful than ever before in order to overcome the
atmosphere of present-day society which is unloving, disunited, careless of
right and wrong and heedless of God. "... when we see the increasing
darkness in the world today," the Guardian's secretary wrote on his
behalf, "we can fully realize that unless the Message of Bahá'u'lláh
reaches into the hearts of men and transforms them, there can be no peace and
no spiritual progress in the future." (The Universal House of Justice,
from a message to the Baha’is of the world dated 16 November 1969; Messages
from the Universal House of Justice, 1963-1986)