v. 9th and to answer them on his behalf.
Their enclosures were also received....

He was very pleased to hear that you have had eight new Baha'is since
Convention and hopes that this is only a foretaste of the conversion of
souls in far greater numbers in the years lying ahead of us.

The Six Year Plan is of the utmost importance, and he urges your Assembly
to continually keep reminding the friends of the necessity for sustaining
their efforts through arising personally to serve and through giving
generously that others may serve in their place.

In this connection he hopes you will use the services of Marion Holley,
now Mrs. David Hofman, to the full. She is a gifted speaker and writer,
and has had invaluable experience in America as a member of the National
Teaching Committee, during the Seven Year Plan. Both she and Mr. Hofman
are wholly dedicated to the service of the Cause, and eager to do all in
their power to help accomplish the goals of your Six Year Plan.

He was happy to hear that the Summer School was held successfully. Now
that the war is over, and conditions gradually returning to normal, he
hopes that the British believers will exert their utmost in serving the
Cause and spreading its message. Although from time to time they will
receive the help of outside Baha'is, the major responsibility is theirs,
and the lion's share of the work will naturally fall to them as both their
privilege and their duty.

He assures you one and all that his ardent prayers sustain you in your
labours for the Faith and he feels sure that with sufficient effort on the
part of all, and the Power of God which inevitably sustains
self-sacrificing service in His Path, the goals can be gloriously
achieved....

P.S. He was delighted to hear of the welfare of the German believers.
Reports of a similar nature had already reached him, but no figures had
been given.

[From the Guardian:]

Dearly beloved co-workers,

I am anxiously waiting for the news of the progress of the Six Year Plan,
upon which the future orientation of the collective activities of the
English believers depends, and with which the immediate destinies of their
Faith are interwoven. No sacrifice is too great to ensure its success. The
utmost effort, vigilance, perseverance and self-sacrifice are required to
carry it to a successful conclusion. If the friends, individually and
collectively, play their part and exert their utmost, the abundant
blessings of Baha