teresting and useful as it may be, is hard and most exacting to one's
patience and energy. It needs great perseverance to obtain a hearing among
the people and draw their attention to this Blessed Cause. But once that
that has been obtained and the way smoothed then progress becomes
increasingly great and the fruits of your labours appreciated.

Shoghi Effendi is very glad that you have enjoyed your trip to England.
The Friends there though they are few in number, are full of love and
affection, one cannot but feel at home among them.

Shoghi Effendi thanks Miss Nora Lee for the kind contribution she has made
to the Cause. It will be spent for the progress of this movement so dear
to the heart of us all. Enclosed there will be a receipt for that amount.

Shoghi Effendi and the other members of the family send you their best
Baha'i love and greeting and wish you success in your services to the
Cause.

Your brother in His Name,
Ruhi Afnan

[From the Guardian:]

_My dearest fellow-worker:_

_My prayers accompany you wherever you go. I wish you to be happy,
confident and active. Rest assured of my great admiration of your zeal and
steadfast labours, of my confidence in the success of your splendid
pioneer services and of my eagerness to hear from you about the progress
of your work._

_Your true brother, _
_ Shoghi_

(7) December 5th, 1925

_To the publisher of the Baha'i Magazine, "The Herald of the South"._

_My dear friend and fellow-worker:_

_I have just heard the welcome news of the publication of the first issue
of the Baha'i Journal, recently established by the friends of Australia
and New Zealand. I rejoice in this new and notable Baha'i enterprise,
particularly as it is undertaken by my dearly-beloved and self-sacrificing
brothers and sisters in a land which holds so great a promise for the
future._

_I have followed the progress of the activities of the Baha'is of
Australia and New Zealand with keen interest and ever-increasing
confidence, and with a deep sense of pride and gratitude. I most heartily
welcome this newly-added link in the chain of the many services, so
lovingly and spontaneously rendered by the pioneers of the Cause in these
lands. I assure you of my steadfast prayers for the speedy expansion and
consolidation of this youngest of all Baha'i Magazines, and of my earnest
endeavours to enable it attain a standard worthy of the bearer of such a
noble Message._

_It should be