ntion sessions, of your teaching activities and of
your Baha'i publications, and other administrative undertakings, enhances
my admiration and deepens my gratitude for the historic work you are
achieving in these days. This feeling is shared by all those of your
co-workers, both in the East and the West, who follow the progress of your
work despite the formidable obstacles in your path. We all pray for your
safety, for the realisation of all your hopes, and the fulfilment of the
plans you have so boldly conceived and are so energetically carrying out.

Your true brother,
Shoghi 1941 (Summer School) OVERJOYED SUCCESS ATTENDING EVER EXPANDING
INSTITUTIONS FAITH. CONTINUALLY SUPPLICATING UNFAILING PROTECTION
EVER-INCREASING BLESSINGS ETERNAL GRATITUDE.

SHOGHI RABBANI

Letter of 20 August 1941

20 August 1941

Dear Baha'i Friend,

The Guardian has instructed me to answer your letters to him dated June
6th and 30th respectively, also the minutes of the N.S.A. meetings of May
24th and 25th and June 14th were safely received.

He is happy to see that, in spite of the great physical and nervous strain
which the believers of England are at present being subjected
to--especially in centres like London--they yet persevere with the work of
the Cause and the attraction of new souls.

The Guardian does not feel that the friends should for a moment feel
discouraged if they do not succeed in having large meetings or the public
do not regularly attend, this is easily understandable in view of the
severe ordeal which their present sufferings subject them to. However, the
importance of broadcasting the seeds of the Cause far and wide can never
be sufficiently stressed. It is the right and privilege of organised
humanity to hear of the Faith and the Plan of Baha'u'llah in these days,
and in this holy duty to their fellow men the Baha'is must not fail
whatever may be the sadness of their personal plight, for they alone can
truly see the future in the tragic present, and possess hope and strength
to go on with the spiritual battle for the victory of the New Day.

Regarding the question you have put to the Guardian concerning minute No.
259, whatever is not laid down in "Baha'i Administration" is left to the
judgement of the National Spiritual Assembly to decide. These are purely
secondary details and as the Guardian wishes to avoid introducing into the
administration a labyrinth of rules and regulations he leaves the frien