To these words, written on my behalf, and in answer to your particular
questions relating to the administrative issues that confront you in these
days, I wish to add my own tribute to the magnificent manner in which
you face the problems, both spiritual and administrative, which the expansion
of the Faith is continually raising, and to the way in which you resolve
them, explain their nature, and derive fresh strength from your experience
of any one of them. The text of the annual reports demonstrates this fact
and establishes for all time the high standard according to which the
administrative machinery of the Faith is functioning, developing and
consolidating itself under your able and energetic direction. As the
administrative processes expand, as their operation steadily improves, as their
necessity is more fully and strikingly demonstrated, and their beneficent
influence correspondingly
grows more apparent and evident, so will the blessings, the strength
and guidance bestowed by Him Who animates and directs these processes
be more abundantly vouchsafed to those who have been called upon to
utilize them, in this age, for the execution of God's Purpose and for the
ultimate redemption of a sore-stricken travailing humanity. Many will be
the setbacks, the shocks and the disturbances, which the commotions of a
convulsive age must produce; yet no force, however violent and world-wide
in its range and catastrophic in its immediate consequences, can either halt
these processes or deflect their appointed course. How great, then, the
privilege, and how staggering the responsibility, of those who are destined to
guard over them and to bring them eventually to full fruition. Nothing
short of utter, of continuous consecration to His Will and Purpose can
enable them to fulfil their high destiny.
May 15, 1940