Directives From the Guardian
12 ARCHIVES (The Importance Of)
"The importance of the institution of Bahá'í Archives is not
due only to the many teaching facilities it procures, but is
especially to be found in the vast amount of historical data and
information it offers both to the present-day administrators of
the Cause, and to the Bahá'í historians of the future. The
institution of Bahá'í Archives is indeed a most valuable
storehouse of information regarding all the aspects of the Faith,
administrative as well as doctrinal. Future generations of
believers will be surely in a better position than we are to
truly and adequately appreciate the many advantages and
facilities which the institution of the Archives offers to
individual believers and also to the community at large. Now
that the Cause is rapidly passing through so many different
phases of its evolution, is the time for the friends to exert their
utmost in order to preserve as much as they can of the sacred
relics and various other precious objects that are associated
with the lives of the Founders of the Faith, and particularly the
Tablets They have revealed. Every believer should realize
that he has a definite responsibility to shoulder in this matter,
and to help, to whatever extent he can, in rendering successful
and valuable work which National and local Bahá'í Archives
committees are so devotedly accomplishing for the Faith in
America."
Directives From the Guardian
pages 4-5
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