‎"Conditions in the world today place an added burden on the shoulders of everyone, the Bahá'ís included, and the Guardian has the greatest sympathy for their difficulties. However he feels that each Bahá'í, no matter how tired and over-worked he may be or how preoccupied with cares of every day life should constantly bear in mind the great blessings God has bestowed upon him by enabling him to accept His Cause in this day. Everything else is transient; our difficulties will pass away, and our lives too eventually, but this eternal gift of Faith in Bahá'u'lláh will never pass away and will be the source of our everlasting happiness." - From a letter on behalf of Shoghi Effendi to the Englewood, N.J. Community, dated May 3, 1943