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Agnes Alexander - first
Baha’i to settle in Japan
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One can hardly imagine what a great influence
genuine love, truthfulness and purity of motives exert on the souls of men. But
these traits cannot be acquired by any believer unless he makes a daily effort
to gain them... It is primarily through the potency of noble deeds and
character, rather than by the power of exposition and proofs, that the friends
of God should demonstrate to the world that what has been promised by God is
bound to happen, that it is already taking place and that the divine glad-tidings
are clear, evident and complete.
(From a letter dated 19 December 1923 written
by Shoghi Effendi to the Bahá'ís of the East - translated from the Persian; The
Compilation of Compilations, vol. II, Living the Life)
