ed and we
shall emerge from every difficulty spiritually stronger and wiser.

Shoghi Effendi wishes to extend to you his thanks for your giving him the
report of the activities of the friends there. He will soon write a letter
to the Assembly based on their report. He wishes you to rest assured that
his thoughts and prayers are with you wishing you all success in your
labours for the promulgation of the Blessed Cause.

Although unable to write individual letters he will gladly welcome all
letters that you will send him in the future...

Letter of 29 November 1923

29 November 1923

To the members of the English National Spiritual Assembly

My dearly-beloved fellow-workers in the Vineyard of God!

I am in receipt of your letter dated Nov. 17th 1923, and forwarded to me
by our active and devoted brother, Mr. Simpson. I have read it with the
utmost pleasure and satisfaction. I feel happy and encouraged to learn
that those few, yet earnest and promising, servants of Baha'u'llah in that
land are, despite the vicissitudes and obstacles that confront the rapid
rise of the Movement, wholeheartedly striving and co-operating for the
fulfilment of His divine Promise.

You, surely, have laid a firm foundation for the future development of the
Cause in those regions, and my hope is that the National Assembly of Great
Britain may, by full, frequent, and anxious consultation, protect the
Cause, maintain and promote harmony amongst the friends, and initiate and
execute ways and means for the diffusion of its spirit and the promotion
of its principles.

I welcome with keen and genuine satisfaction the active participation of
our beloved sister, Mrs. Thornburgh-Cropper, in the affairs of the Cause,
and feel confident that her wisdom, her experience, her influence, and her
unparalleled opportunities for the service of the Movement will pave the
way for the wholesome growth of the Cause in that land.

I am sure you all realise the seemingly unsurmountable difficulties in the
way of individual correspondence with the ever-increasing multitude of
Baha'is throughout the world, and I need hardly tell you how tremendously
difficult it is, and how reluctant I feel, to discriminate at all between
the many letters of varying importance which I daily receive from almost
every corner of the globe. Realising however that direct and intimate
individual correspondence, in some form or other, is most urgent and vital
to the interests