tten by Shoghi Effendi to the
Magazine of the Children of the Kingdom, Boston, U.S.A) [102]

"103: 'Abdu'l-Baha has always attached very great importance to the
education of..."

'Abdu'l-Baha has always attached very great importance to the education of
children and we take this opportunity to congratulate you on your signal
success in this field of service. We hope some day your work will extend
into the East extensively where it is so badly needed.

(From a letter dated 9 April 1925 written on behalf of Shoghi Effendi to
an individual believer) [103]

"104: In connection with the question that you had asked as to whether
you..."

In connection with the question that you had asked as to whether you
should take a trip to the Holy Land or keep the sum to defray the expense
of a young man you are educating. Shoghi Effendi wishes me to write you
that although it means profound pleasure to him and to the members of the
holy family, to welcome you in the home of our beloved Master and to share
with you the eternal outpourings of His Grace in and around His blessed
Shrine, he deems it of greater importance for you to keep up helping the
young boy whom you have undertaken to educate. This he would advise you
with a deep realization of Baha'u'llah's most pregnant utterance that he
who educates his child or another's it is just as though he is educating a
child of Baha'u'llah Himself.

(From a letter dated 29 May 1925 written on behalf of Shoghi Effendi to an
individual believer) [104]

"105: Among the sacred obligations devolving upon the Spiritual Assemblies
is..."

Among the sacred obligations devolving upon the Spiritual Assemblies is
the promotion of learning, the establishing of schools and creation of the
necessary academic equipment and facilities for every boy and girl.

Every child, without exception, must from his earliest years make a
thorough study of the art of reading and writing, and according to his own
tastes and inclinations and the degree of his capacity and powers, devote
extreme diligence to the acquisition of learning beneficial arts and
skills, various languages, speech, and contemporary technology.

To assist the children of the poor in the attainment of these
accomplishments, and particularly in learning the basic subjects, is
incumbent upon the members of the Spiritual Assemblies, and is accounted
as one of the obligations laid upon the conscience of the trustees of G