ient for your Assembly to continue to defray
his expenses as a teacher and pioneer, then it seems inevitable that he
will have to make some other plans. His services have been of real value,
and his intimate knowledge of the teachings and steadfastness in the
Covenant have enabled him to contribute much to the understanding of the
friends.

The Guardian approves your resolution to keep Mr. Ferraby as paid
secretary of the Assembly. He deeply appreciates Mr. Ferraby's devoted
services.

The Guardian wishes to assure you, one and all, of his prayers for the
success of the new work your Assembly will be undertaking, and for the
consolidation of all the recent goals achieved.

P.S. Also just received are a receipt for the Guardian's contribution,
dated May 15th and your letter, with enclosure, of May 28th and May 24th.
A photo of the Shrine will be mailed you very soon.

P.P.S. The Guardian will certainly pray for the progress and happiness of
the soul of Mr. Manton. No doubt the selfless services his son has
rendered the Cause of God, in an hour of great need, will be accepted and
enable him to influence the state of his father through his own prayers.

[From the Guardian:]

Dear and valued co-workers,

On the occasion of the victorious consummation of the first historic Plan
undertaken by the British Baha'i community, I feel moved to reaffirm my
feelings of exultation, joy and gratitude for the superb triumph that
marks such a great turning point in British Baha'i history. No single
event, in the course of its half-a-century existence, with the exception
of the twice repeated visit of the Centre of the Covenant to the British
Isles, has proved as significant and momentous as this unique collective
achievement, which may, in a sense, be regarded as the first and
long-awaited fruit of that intimate and personal contact, established both
in private and in public, by 'Abdu'l-Baha with its members as well as with
various representatives of the country to which it belongs.

So magnificent an achievement has, no doubt, endowed the entire community,
now representative of the peoples of England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland,
with tremendous potentialities, empowering it to launch on the first stage
of its historic overseas mission destined to bring that community into
closer and more concrete association with its sister communities in North
America and Egypt, for the purpose of promoting the Faith in the vast
virgin territ