We . . . ask you to encourage the Counselors to try to strike a balance between locally-sponsored teaching activities and nationally-directed projects which should be carried out by the National Spiritual Assembly and its committees within the limits of the manpower and the financial resources at their disposal and at a speed which would enable the consolidation to be effective… The concentration of all teaching efforts in Local Spiritual Assemblies . . . is neither practical nor wise.
- The Universal House of Justice (From a letter dated May 13, 1975, to the International Teaching Center, in an unpublished compilation: Developing Distinctive Baha’i Communities, NSA of USA, 1998 edition)
