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1932-03-14 appeal regarding new Plan
USBN #61 - April 1932 - page 1
March 14, 1932
Dear and valued co-workers:
I grieve, beyond words, to learn of the scanty response of the friends to
the Plan of Unified Action to which the sacred interests of the Faith are at
present so vitally and closely related. I am acutely conscious of the
unprecedented character of the depression under which you labor. I am fully aware
of the sacrifices you have already made, and realize the urgent need of allaying
the burden which weighs so heavily on some of the poor and distressed believers.
But I realize also the uniqueness of the opportunity which it is our privilege to
seize and utilize. The world is watching the progress of our Faith and the steady
expansion of our institutions. The eyes of countless men and women, both high and
low, whether in the East or in the West, friendly or critical, are fixed upon the
Mashriqu'l-Adhkar, eager and expectant to know whether the growing vicissitudes
and the successive crises that afflict your country are such as to deflect the
American believers from their high purpose or to paralyze their efforts in the
prosecution of their sacred task. Ours is the duty to vindicate the vitality and
invincible power of our Faith.
SHOGHI.
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