, the community
will find itself equipped, not only to carry the Message of the New Day to
the multitudes throughout the length and breadth of its homeland, but
prepared and fortified to initiate teaching campaigns beyond the shores of
its native land, and in distant territories and various parts of the
Empire of which that land is the heart and centre.

Theirs is the duty, during these coming years, to lay patiently,
assiduously and unitedly the foundation on which the structure of their
future international services to their beloved Faith can be firmly and
unassailably established. Upon the success of the Plan they are now so
diligently and devotedly prosecuting, must depend the scope and
effectiveness of their two-fold task of proclaiming the verities of their
Faith to their fellow countrymen at home, and of implanting its banner
abroad amidst the peoples and races of a far-flung Empire.

That they may carry out, in a befitting manner and by the appointed time,
the preliminary steps so essential for the fulfilment of their high
destiny is my dearest wish and constant prayer.

Shoghi

Letter of 20 March 1947 (To First Regional Youth Conference)

20 March 1947 (To First Regional Youth Conference)

PROFOUNDLY APPRECIATE MESSAGE CONFERENCE URGE CONCENTRATE NEEDS PLAN
PRAYING GREAT VICTORIES.

SHOGHI

Letter of 21 March 1947

21 March 1947

OVERJOYED PROSPECTS PRAYING ARDENTLY CONSUMMATION CHERISHED HOPES APPEAL
ENTIRE COMMUNITY EXERT SUPREME EFFORT ENSURE TOTAL SUCCESS MIGHTY
ENTERPRISE DEEPEST LOVING APPRECIATION ABIDING GRATITUDE.

SHOGHI

Letter of 28 March 1947

28 March 1947

ADVISE APPORTION DELEGATES COMING CONVENTION IN STRICT ACCORDANCE NUMBER
BELIEVERS ACTUALLY RESIDING IN FOUR COMMUNITIES MENTIONED LETTER FEBRUARY
24TH.

SHOGHI

Letter of 7 April 1947

7 April 1947

National Youth Committee

Dear Baha'i Friends,

Your letters dated August 10th (from the secretary) and December 19th and
March 18th (from the Business Manager of the Editorial Committee) were
received, and as our beloved Guardian is greatly overburdened by his
steadily expanding correspondence, he has instructed me to answer these
communications all in one.

He was very pleased to receive copies of "Youth Bulletin," which he thinks
is starting out in the right direction; he would like to receive this
publication regularly.

The work you are doing is very important, and the British Bah