s ever expanding responsibilities. The miracle its members
have performed over so vast a territory, in so short a time, and under
such adverse circumstances, cannot but augur well for the initial success
of an enterprise infinitely more meritorious, of far greater promise, and
endowed with vastly superior spiritual potentialities.

How great the honour with which the Baha'i pioneers of the present
generation of the subjects of the British Crown will be invested in the
eyes of posterity within their island home and abroad! How great the debt
of gratitude of those who will labour after them and garner the fruit of
their present day assiduous exertions to those whose privilege is to blaze
the trail and break the soil in the virgin territories destined, as
prophesied by 'Abdu'l-Baha, to acclaim the Faith of Baha'u'llah and
establish the institutions of His embryonic World Order!

This community, laden with the trophies of so recent and splendid a
victory, and summoned to brace itself for another exertion, so fate-laden
in its consequences, stands too near the structure which its hands are now
rearing to visualise the dimensions of its task, appraise its value, and
appreciate its future glory. Alive to its inherent capacity, conscious of
its high responsibility, aware of the sacredness of its mission,
emboldened by its recent exploits, trusting fully in that reinforcing
Power that guided and sustained it unfailingly in the past, this community
can do no better than to gird up afresh its loins, turn its back upon the
clamour of the age, its fears, confusion and strife, step resolutely
forward on its chosen path, unshakably confident that with every step it
takes, should it remain undeflected in its purpose and undimmed in its
vision, a fresh outpouring of Divine grace will reinforce and guide its
march on the highroad of its destiny.

Your true brother,
Shoghi

Letter of 28 June 1950

28 June 1950

Dear Baha'i Brother,

Your letters dated June 6th and two of June 13th have just reached the
Guardian, with their enclosures, and he wishes you to please regard this
as a sort of postscript to the detailed letter to your Assembly which was
mailed a short time ago. He thanks you for the copies of correspondence
with the Official Solicitor, and trusts this matter is now satisfactorily
settled.

He approves of the advice your Assembly has given.... However, he does not
approve of ... going to Canada or South America.