s.
You may be sure that he remembers you all in his prayers, and also the
body of the faithful believers you serve to such good purpose.
He would like you to please thank, on his behalf, the friends who so
devotedly contribute to the construction of the Holy Shrine....
P.S. As regards Baha'i divorce as mentioned in your letters of June 12th:
Baha'is (whether one party or both are believers) should follow the Baha'i
law of divorce, i.e. one year of waiting, and not neglect this divinely
given law. Whether they were Baha'is when they married or not has nothing
to do with it.
In connection with the budget, mentioned in your letter of June 10th, he
feels, in the future, you should not set a budget which the resources of
the community are unable to meet; however, owing to the crucial Africa
work and the forthcoming Conference, he realises you had at this time no
other choice. He is going to arrange for one thousand pounds to be sent to
your Assembly in order to meet the needs of the Conference and the
literature in African languages still to be published. The remaining
translations should be pressed forward in order to be ready for the
Conference next year.
[From the Guardian:]
Dear and valued co-workers,
The Two Year Plan on which the British Baha'i community has embarked bids
fair, as it approaches its conclusion, to eclipse, however short its
duration, the exploits of that community throughout the length and breadth
of the British Isles, in the course of the prosecution of the first
collective enterprise undertaken in British Baha'i history. This second
historic undertaking marks the inauguration of the Mission entrusted to
this community for the purpose of diffusing the Message of Baha'u'llah and
of implanting its banner through successive stages, and in collaboration
with its sister communities, not only in the territories of the British
Crown in the African Continent, but throughout the dependencies of a
widely scattered Empire in the remaining continents of the globe. It may
well be regarded as a befitting prelude to the official participation of
this community in the Ten Year, world-encircling Crusade, designed to
signalise the celebration of the hundredth anniversary of the birth of
Baha'u'llah's Mission, involving the systematic co-operation of no less
than twelve National Assemblies throughout the Baha'i world, and destined
to culminate in the Most Great Jubilee that will, God willing, witness the
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