u the list you sent with suggested corrections in
relation to the pamphlet your Assembly published last year--"The Baha'i
Faith 1844-1952, Information Statistical and Comparative". The righthand
column marked "Suggested", he considers quite acceptable. The places where
you have put question marks are correct, with very few exceptions which
the Guardian has corrected, in the column marked "As Listed", with the
exception of the transliteration of the name _Sh_u'a'u'llah, (Number 12)
which the Guardian has corrected.
Assuring you of the Guardian's loving prayers for the success of your
devoted labours....
P.S. July 28th. Your letter of July 7th has likewise been received.
[From the Guardian:]
Dear and valued co-workers,
The achievements of the members of the tenacious, the valiant and
wide-awake British Baha'i community, within the borders of their homeland
and beyond its confines, in the course of the opening year of the Baha'i
World Crusade, deserve the highest commendation and have considerably
heightened its prestige and deepened my own admiration for it as well as
that of its sister communities in both Hemispheres.
Called into being through the dispensations of a watchful Providence, in
the middle of the memorable decade that witnessed the introduction of the
Faith of Baha'u'llah into the Western world; sharing with its sister
community across the Channel the distinction of being the first to be
quickened by the life-giving influences generated by the newly-established
Covenant of Baha'u'llah in the Holy Land; the recipient of untold
blessings showered upon it by the Centre of the Covenant in the days of
its infancy; singled out among the newly-fledged communities in both
Europe and the North American Continent through the twice repeated visits
of 'Abdu'l-Baha to the shores of its homeland; fully equipped with the
agencies of a divinely conceived Administrative Order, patiently and
laboriously erected by its stalwart members in the years immediately
following the setting of the Orb of that same Covenant; enriched by the
experience derived from the successful prosecution of two successive
nationwide Plans formulated by its national elected representatives, this
community finds itself, on the morrow of the termination of the opening
year of the afore-mentioned Crusade, simultaneously firmly rooted within
the soil of its homeland and vigorously branching out on the first stage
of its mission in foreign fields
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