. . . The most effective method of teaching is the Fireside
group, where new people can be shown Bahá'í hospitality, and ask all questions
which bother them. They can feel there the true Bahá'í spirit -- and it is the
spirit that quickeneth.
- Shoghi Effendi (From a letter dated 20 October 1956
written on behalf of Shoghi Effendi to an individual ; ‘The Individual and
Teaching - Raising the Divine Call’, compilation prepared by the Research
Department of the Universal House of Justice)