WARMLY WELCOME OCCASION SIMULTANEOUS CONFERENCES COSTA RICA
AND HONDURAS TO GREET VIBRANT BAHA'I YOUTH CENTRAL AMERICA. YOUR ENTHUSIASTIC
EXERTIONS IN SERVICE CAUSE BAHA'U'LLAH AS SHOWN BY SUBSTANTIAL INCREASE YOUR
NUMBERS BRING GLADNESS TO OUR HEARTS AND INSPIRE EXHILARATING THOUGHT THAT
BRIGHT PROSPECTS SUCCESS LIE IMMEDIATELY BEFORE YOU.
YOU MEET AT HIGHLY CRITICAL MOMENT HISTORY WHEN TURMOIL
ASSOCIATED WITH THIS ERA OF TRANSITION INTENSIFIES. WITHIN CAUSE ITSELF CAN BE
SEEN ON ONE HAND UNPRECEDENTED CAMPAIGN PERSECUTION LONG-SUFFERING IRANIAN
BRETHREN AND ON OTHER HAND RESOUNDING TRIUMPHS SEVEN YEAR PLAN INDUCED BY THEIR
SACRIFICES AND SYMBOLIZED BY OCCUPANCY PERMANENT SEAT UNIVERSAL HOUSE OF
JUSTICE. MANKIND RAPIDLY APPROACHES RECKONING WITH BAHA'U'LLAH'S INJUNCTION
THAT IT BE UNITED. FROM FAR AND NEAR
ANGUISHED MULTITUDES CRY FOR PEACE BUT BEING LARGELY IGNORANT HIS
LIFE-REDEEMING MESSAGE THEY FEEL NO HOPE.
SITUATION THUS PRESENTS BAHA'I YOUTH WITH GREAT OPPORTUNITIES INESCAPABLE
CHALLENGE TO RESCUE THEIR PEERS FROM SLOUGH DESPONDENCY POINTING THEM TOWARDS
HOPE-RESTORING BANNER MOST GREAT NAME. HOW FITTING THEN THAT YOU SHOULD
CONSIDER AT THESE CONFERENCES BEST MEANS EQUIP YOURSELVES SPIRITUALLY TO FULFIL
TEACHING MISSION PARTICULARLY SUITED TO YOUR CAPACITIES FOR SERVICE, YOUR
ABOUNDING ZEAL AND ENERGY.
ARDENTLY SUPPLICATING AT HOLY THRESHOLD ON YOUR BEHALF THAT
IN ADDITION TO PRAYING, ABSORBING HOLY PRINCIPLES AND TEACHING FAITH, YOU WILL
BE SO IMBUED BY BELOVED MASTER'S EXAMPLE SERVICE TO HUMANITY AS TO BE ABLE
THROUGH YOUR INDIVIDUAL AND COLLECTIVE DEEDS TO DEMONSTRATE CIVILIZING POWER
OUR SACRED CAUSE AND CONVEY VISION ITS SPIRITUAL AND SOCIALLY CONSTRUCTIVE
BENEFITS TO YOUR COMPATRIOTS OF ALL AGES.
UNIVERSAL HOUSE OF JUSTICE
(‘Messages from the Universal House of Justice 1963-1986’)
