th absolute good-will and genuine cooperation
unite in deepening and diffusing the spirit of love and service that the
Cause has thus far so remarkably shown to the world. To this attitude of
good-will, of forbearance and genuine kindness to all, must be added,
however, constant but unprovocative vigilance, lest unrestricted
association with the peoples of the world should enable the very few who
have been definitely pronounced by the Master as injurious to the body of
the Cause, to make a breach in the Movement. Not until, however, an
unmistakable evidence should appear, manifestly revealing the evil motives
of a certain individual or group of individuals, is it advisable to make
the matter public; for an untimely declaration that shall give rise to
open differences among the friends is far more detrimental than forbearing
still further with those who are suspected of evil intentions. As the
Master so fully and consistently did throughout His lifetime, we must all
make a supreme effort to pour out a genuine spirit of kindness and hopeful
love to peoples of various creeds and classes, and must abstain from all
provocative language that may impede the effect of what true and continued
kindness can produce.

Does not 'Abdu'l-Baha wish us, as He looks down upon us with loving
expectation from His glorious Station, to obliterate as much as possible
all traces of censure, of conflicting discussions, of cooling remarks, of
petty unnecessary observations that impede the onward march of the Cause,
that damp the zeal of the firm believer and detract from the sublimity of
the Baha'i Cause in the eyes of the inquirer? In order, however, to insure
fair and quick and vigorous action whenever such an evil activity is
revealed and has been carefully ascertained, the best and only means would
appear to be, for the careful observer, once he is assured of such an evil
action, and has grown hopeless of the attitude of kindness and
forbearance, to report it quietly to the Spiritual Assembly representative
of the friends in that locality and submit the case to their earnest and
full consideration. Should the majority of the members of that Assembly be
conscientiously convinced of the case--and this being a national issue
affecting the body of the friends in America--it should, only through the
intermediary of that Assembly, be cautiously communicated to that greater
body representing all the Assemblies in America, which will in its turn
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