From the Beloved UHJ

Joe Woods' recent contribution to the Hamilton Baha'i Mailing list:

The beloved Universal House of Justice reminds us of the intrinsic link between the decay of the Old World Order and the essential need to match its accelerated momentum with an increased focus on the requirements of the Five Plan.


"That the continued strengthening of the community should be matched by a further decline in the old world order comes as no surprise. Indeed, the friends should be on their guard, lest the development of capacity in the community not keep pace with the rise in receptivity of a disillusioned humanity.  Behold how even in the short span of time since we raised this warning in our Ridvan message, financial structures once thought to be impregnable have tottered and world leaders have shown their inability to devise more than temporary solutions, a failing to which they increasingly confess.  Whatever expedient measures are adopted, confidence has been shaken and a sense of security lost.  Surely such developments have caused the believers in every land to reflect on the lamentable condition of the present order and have reinforced in them the conviction that material and spiritual civilization must be advanced together." (Universal House of Justice, October 20 2008)