nitedly redouble their
efforts, extend the range of their activities, rededicate themselves to
their historic task and anticipate a renewed outpouring of Baha'u'llah's
promised blessings and favours.

Your true and grateful brother,
Shoghi

Letter of 28 July 1942

28 July 1942

MAGNIFICENT SPIRIT ANIMATING STEADFAST ENGLISH BELIEVERS NOTABLE
ACCOMPLISHMENTS TEACHING FIELD PROMPT ME CONTRIBUTE TWO HUNDRED POUNDS
FURTHERANCE THEIR HISTORIC TEACHING ACTIVITIES URGE REDOUBLE EFFORTS
PRAYING SIGNAL VICTORIES LOVING GRATITUDE.

SHOGHI RABBANI

Letter of 8 August 1942 (Summer School)

8 August 1942 (Summer School)

DELIGHTED SUCCESSFUL SCHOOL APPRECIATE SPIRIT BELIEVERS ASSURE ALL
CONTINUED PRAYERS.

SHOGHI RABBANI

Letter of 8 August 1942

8 August 1942

Dear Baha'i Sister,

Your letters of May 14th and June 10th together with their enclosures
reached the Guardian safely, and he has instructed me to answer you on his
behalf.

He has been very gratified to hear of the successful Summer School
sessions, news of the Buxton one having just recently reached him in your
latest cable. He feels that you must all be very encouraged that this new
way of holding them in different places, which circumstances made
imperative, has proved so successful in the end. It presages the day when
the friends in England will see the institutions of their Faith rising
from various flourishing centres.

Regarding minute No. 507, the Guardian feels that it would be better for
either the mothers of Baha'i children--or some committee your Assembly
might delegate the task to--to choose excerpts from the Sacred Words to be
used by the child rather than just something made up. Of course prayer can
be purely spontaneous, but many of the sentences and thoughts combined in
Baha'i writings of a devotional nature are easy to grasp, and the revealed
Word is endowed with a power of its own....

Shoghi Effendi fully realises the strain which those who are so actively
bearing the weight of Baha'i responsibility are subjected to in these
days, when already, as private individuals, the events of the world are
affecting their lives and drawing on their strength. It makes the quality
of Baha'i service so much finer, that it should entail on the part of all
definite self-sacrifice.

Though the friends may not be fully aware of it, their staunch
perseverance in carrying out their Baha'i activities in the face of war
condit