Shoghi Effendi is sure that the more you study the Cause and
its teachings the more you will realize what a mission it has to give to this
world at this time. Dr. Jowett of Balliol rightly said that this is the
greatest light that has appeared in the world since Christianity, that the
present generation is too near to it to appreciate its import, that only in the
future its significance will become manifest. I do not believe that even the
Bahá'ís can conceive the wonderful and fundamental change the tenets of this
movement and the spirit of the teachings and the life of its Founders are going
to make in the heart and mind of this generation and the future ones.
- Shoghi Effendi (From a
letter dated 17 December 1928 written on behalf of Shoghi Effendi to an
individual believer; The Compilation of Compilations, vol. I, The Importance of
Deepening Our Knowledge and Understanding of the Faith)
