He like The Master before him, is so anxious to see the believers united in serving the Faith. If between the 'friends, true love, based on the love of God, could become manifest, the Cause would spread very rapidly. Love is the standard which must govern the conduct of one believer towards another. The administrative order does not change this, but unfortunately sometimes the friends confuse the two, and try to be a whole spiritual assembly to each other, with the discipline and justice and impartiality that body must show, instead of being forgiving, loving and patient to each other as individuals.
- Shoghi Effendi (From a letter dated
March 18, 1950, to a believer; Canadian Baha’i News, May 1950, no.13)
