in Palestine
and will enable them to realize the gravity and the urgency of our case.

Assuring you of his best wishes and of his ardent prayers for the success
of your work,...

[From the Guardian:]

Dear and prized co-worker:

Your prompt and able response to my request has greatly touched me, and I
wish to express again my lovely appreciation and abiding gratitude. I
cherish great hopes for your future contributions to the spread and
consolidation of the Faith in that land, and will continue to pray for
your success from the depths of my heart.

Your true and affectionate brother,
Shoghi

LETTER OF 1 OCTOBER 1933 (SUMMER SCHOOL)

1 October 1933 (Summer School)

Dear Baha'i co-workers,

The Guardian has just received your beautiful message of Sep. 3rd, 33,
written through the kindness of Miss Jack, and he has directed me to thank
you all for the success that has attended your summer school classes at
Esslingen. The importance and significance of such annual gatherings are
immense, since they offer each and every one of you a unique opportunity
to come and discuss together the ways and means whereby the Faith can
extend and develop throughout Germany. By the collective spirit, the unity
and the enthusiasm they create, these meetings serve to strengthen the
bonds of amity and cooperation among the friends and to give them a new
vision of the Cause, of its imperative needs and requirements in these
days of political agitation and strife. The social and political
conditions in your land are, indeed, very distressing, and if they remain
unchanged for a long time, may hamper the progress of the Faith. It is now
that you should work in utmost unity and in the spirit of an unflinching
devotion to the ideals and teachings of the Cause.

Shoghi Effendi hopes that your summer school will increasingly develop and
will become an important center for the spread of the Message. You should
try to raise its intellectual as well as its spiritual standard and to
pave the way for its future development into one of the foremost Baha'i
universities in the West. Much stress should be laid on the thorough study
of the history and of the teachings of the Cause, and particularly of the
nature, basis and outstanding features of the Administration. The severe
tests and trials through which our German brethren have passed during the
last few years clearly demonstrate how much they are in need of a full
comprehension of the