has been made clear
beyond the shadow of a doubt that what raised aloft the banner of
Baha'u'llah was the love, sacrifice and devotion of His humble followers
and the change that His teachings wrought in their hearts and lives.

It is just such exemplary devotion and perseverance that the British
Baha'is are showing at present, and their reward cannot but be great and
lasting. The laying of the foundation is a slow process, but the most
important one in the erection of any structure. The Guardian feels that
your Assembly, as well as the friends in England, have every reason to
feel proud of, and encouraged by, the way the work is progressing there.

He hopes that your Summer School this year will be even more successful
than last year, in spite of being held in two parts. You may be sure he
will pray for its success.

He fully realises the difficulties you are undergoing enhanced by the war
and its hardships, yet he sees, perhaps even more clearly than you
yourselves can, that these very difficulties and the surmounting of them
are deepening and strengthening the ties that bind you all to our beloved
Faith, and enabling you to do a work which only future generations of your
countrymen will be able to properly appreciate and assess.

Please convey to all the dear friends the assurances of his love and his
prayers for their service in these days, and his high hopes for the future
that awaits them in the days to come, when the Cause of God begins to
emerge above the waves of the old order and shines forth in all its
strength and beauty.

Assuring you and all your fellow-members of his deep appreciation of your
tireless work and his ardent prayers for your guidance and strength....

[From the Guardian:]

Dearly beloved co-worker,

The steady progress and extension of Baha'i activities in the British
Isles is, no doubt, the direct consequence of the unswerving loyalty, the
high courage, the incorruptible spirit and the exemplary devotion and
steadfastness of the British believers, who have, simply and strikingly,
demonstrated the quality of their faith and the soundness of their
institutions in these days of unprecedented commotion, stress and peril. I
feel proud of their record of service and of the evidence of their noble
faith. The Beloved watches over them from the Abha Kingdom. The Concourse
on High extols their achievements and will reinforce their endeavours.
They should confidently, gratefully, joyously and u