s so dark.
Theirs is the duty to derive from this fleeting glimpse of the glories
which their future destiny holds in store for them fresh inspiration and
added stimulus for a befitting performance of the work that lies
immediately ahead.

Two brief years separate them from the hour destined to witness the total
triumph of their first organised, nation-wide collective enterprise. Every
minute of this interval is infinitely precious. The gloom overhanging the
entire planet is deepening ominously every day. The American followers of
the Faith of Baha'u'llah, through the ever-swelling army of their pioneers
and settlers, on the northern, the western and southern fringes of the
European Continent, as well as the newly resuscitated German and Austrian
Baha'i communities labouring in its very heart, have nobly arisen, and are
doing their part in paving the way for the spiritual awakening and the
ultimate redemption of the teeming millions of its war-torn, discordant,
fear-stricken and spiritually famished inhabitants.

They who man the North-Western outpost of the Faith in Europe must, whilst
pursuing their chartered course, play a distinctive part in this threefold
crusade launched, almost simultaneously, from three directions, in
conformity with specifically laid out plans, at so critical an hour, in so
vast a field, amidst such diversified and conflicting races and nations of
what may well be regarded as the cradle of a civilisation, and the mother
of a Faith, whose fate now hangs so perilously in the balance.

That the valiant community of the British followers of the Faith of
Baha'u'llah may assume an ever-increasing share in this gloriously
unfolding, this herculean, this Divinely propelled enterprise is the
dearest wish of my heart and the object of my constant prayers.

Shoghi

Letter of 25 November 1948

25 November 1948

ASSURE ADA WILLIAMS ... DEEPEST LOVING APPRECIATION DELIGHTED ENROLMENT
NEW BELIEVERS PRAYING REMOVAL DIFFICULTIES NOTTINGHAM DEEPEST LOVE.

SHOGHI RABBANI

Letter of 22 December 1948

22 December 1948

ASSURE HOFMANS BOB CHEEK LOVING ARDENT PRAYERS SUCCESS MERITORIOUS EFFORTS
SUPPLICATING SATISFACTORY SOLUTION SECRETARIAT PROBLEM DEEPEST LOVING
APPRECIATION ASSEMBLY'S NOBLE EXERTIONS.

SHOGHI RABBANI

Letter of 2 January 1949

2 January 1949

APPEAL BRITISH BAHA'I COMMUNITY FOCUS ATTENTION CRITICAL STAGE PIONEER
ACTIVITY SO ESSENTIAL STEADY UNFOLDMENT PLA