easure of self-sacrifice, a
greater audacity, a greater reliance on the sustaining grace of
Baha'u'llah, are required to lend the necessary impetus to the progressive
unfoldment and ultimate fruition of this dynamic process which the
followers of Baha'u'llah, labouring in the heart of a world encircling
empire, have set in motion. May signal success crown their historic
labours.

Shoghi

Letter of 7 June 1946

7 June 1946

National Youth Committee

Dear Baha'i Sister,

Your letter dated May 16th and written on behalf of the National Youth
Committee, was received, and the beloved Guardian has instructed me to
answer it on his behalf.

He is very happy to see that the Baha'i Youth of the British Isles are now
organised and working with enthusiasm for the spread of the Faith there.
He feels that they have a great and important role to play during the next
few years in fulfilling the objectives of the Six Year Plan.

Young people, being, for the most part, freer than the older believers,
are in a position to arise as pioneers and move to new towns as settlers.
A great number of the pioneers in America, who left their native cities,
and often their native land, in order to fulfil the Seven Year Plan, were
young people--some of them so young that the Spiritual Assemblies they
helped to establish they were themselves not yet old enough to be elected
to!

The Guardian has enjoyed very much meeting Capt. Philip Hainsworth, who
had the unique privilege of being in Haifa for over a month, and he feels
sure that upon his return to England he will lend great impetus to both
the Youth and teaching work.

He heartily approves of your "Youth Bulletin" project and urges you to
place special emphasis on articles that are of pertinent interest to young
people, such as those dealing with the economic, social and moral aspects
of society.

Assuring you, and all the members of your Committee, of his loving prayers
for the success of your labours....

[From the Guardian:]

May the Beloved bless your meritorious endeavours, guide every step you
take in the path of service, aid you to extend the range of your
activities, and enable you to promote, by every means in your power, and
in a most effective manner, the vital interests of a Plan with which the
immediate destinies of the members of the English Baha'i Community, both
young and old, are so inextricably interwoven.

Your true brother,
Shoghi

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