gy in
serving the Cause and spreading its message in that town. The life of
those heroes of the Faith should teach us what true sacrifice is, and to
what extent we should forego our personal and worldly interests while
endeavouring to carry the divine message to the four corners of the earth.

Shoghi Effendi would advise the friends in Rostock to hold regular study
classes and read that book with great care, committing its salient facts
to memory, so that while teaching the Cause, they may be able to show the
motivating spirit of the Faith by referring to some incidents of those
early days.

LETTER OF 25 APRIL 1934

25 April 1934

The Baha'is of Esslingen

Dear Baha'i Friends:

The Guardian has read with deep and sustained interest your beautiful
message of Ap. 15th, and he was greatly touched by the expressions of
hope, of devotion and of loyalty which it so faithfully conveyed, and by
the repeated assurances it gave of the united and continued efforts of
your community to extend and consolidate the foundations of the Faith in
your center. Such repeated evidences of your determination to spread the
Message and of your splendid cooperation in establishing the
administrative order of the Cause in Germany make him invariably think of
the promises the Master did so forcefully give in regard to the future
progress of the Movement in that country. May your endeavours contribute
an increasing share towards the gradual realization of these promises.

Shoghi Effendi was greatly impressed by the beautiful marriage ceremony
which you had organized in honour of Mr. and Mrs. Hugo Bender. He hopes
that through this union the bonds of cooperation and of fellowship will be
further strengthened between the members of your community. His prayers
for the success of your activities will continue to be offered to
Baha'u'llah, that you may each and all be enabled to assist in the
consummation of the great work He has summoned us to achieve in this Day.

[From the Guardian:]

Dearly-beloved co-workers:

Your joint and most welcome message brought infinite joy to my heart. I am
delighted to learn of your hopes, your plans and activities. The
summer-school is the object of my constant and fervent prayers. I cherish
great hopes for its expansion in the days to come. May it become a great
teaching center and may the light of this glorious Revelation radiate from
it to all parts of your great and promising country.

Your t