and wishes it to be kept in your National Archives. If you could
send a copy of Lady Lamington's letter the Guardian would very much like
to have it. Assuring you of the Guardian's ardent love and prayers....

[From the Guardian:]

Dearly beloved co-workers,

The message I have recently received, with the assurance it gives me and
the spirit it conveys, merits indeed the highest praise. The English
believers in these days of increasing peril and stress, are manifesting
those qualities which only those who have deeply imbibed the transforming
spirit and the ennobling principles of the Cause of God are able to
reveal. They are by their very acts, their sufferings and exertions, and
above all by the superb staunchness of their faith, laying a magnificent
foundation for the spiritual edifice their hands are destined to raise in
their native land. My prayers for them all will surround them wherever
they labour and in every sphere of their meritorious activities.

Gratefully and affectionately,
Shoghi

Letter of 15 May 1941

15 May 1941(31)

INFORMING MOTHER PRAYING HIS SOUL FERVENTLY SUPPLICATING PROTECTION
DEVOTED MUCH LOVED ENGLISH BELIEVERS.

SHOGHI RABBANI

Letter of 22 May 1941

22 May 1941

Dear Baha'i Friends,

Shoghi Effendi instructs me to answer your letter to him of March 10th,
1941 together with the minutes of your meeting held March 1st, 2nd and
3rd, and your Feb. "Baha'i Journal" and the "World Congress of Faiths"
programme, all of which he was very pleased indeed to receive.

I cannot adequately express to you all the warm love and profound
admiration for the Baha'is of those islands which Shoghi Effendi feels. At
such a time of personal danger and anguish the spirit of pure love and
devotion to the Faith and Order of Baha'u'llah which they manifest, and
which is so typified by the zeal and wisdom with which your National
Spiritual Assembly is handling the affairs of the Cause in that country,
is a source of great comfort to the Guardian himself.

Indeed he feels that the N.S.A. members are bearing their load of
responsibility in a manner which lifts partially the weight of cares from
his own shoulders, and sets a noble example to all Baha'i administrative
bodies.

In reference to your question contained in minute 208(32) of the recent
N.S.A. meeting: Shoghi Effendi feels that while all Baha'is should be
encouraged to turn to their Assembly for the solution of their various