ished very bright hopes for the future of the
German Baha'is. His promises and prophecies will surely be fulfilled, and
the Holy Faith not only be reestablished in Germany but grow and expand as
never before.
The Guardian has urged the American N.S.A. to supply the German Baha'is
with literature as soon as possible; this will enable you to bring the
teachings to your sore-stricken countrymen, and enlist them under the
banner of Baha'u'llah.
You may be sure the Guardian's loving prayers surround you all and sustain
you in your labours for the Cause....
[From the Guardian:]
Dearly-beloved Friends:
Your joint and most welcome letter brought indescribable joy to my heart.
I am thrilled by this latest and indeed most significant evidence of the
unfailing protection of the Almighty, and of His manifold blessings
vouchsafed to His dearly-beloved and worthy servants labouring so
heroically for His Faith in that land. Though I am greatly saddened by the
fate that has overtaken a few of them during this prolonged ordeal they
have experienced, I rejoice and am filled with gratitude, pride and
happiness to realize that the Faith itself has survived this fiery test,
and has demonstrated its resilience, its vitality and incorruptibility
after so crucial a period of stress, of suffering and danger. The duty
facing the triumphant community in your land is to reconstruct, with the
utmost speed and vigour its administrative institutions, and above all,
its national assembly. I will appeal to our brethren in East and West to
offer every assistance in their power for the rehabilitation of a
community which is destined to play, in accordance with 'Abdu'l-Baha's
prophecy, so vital a role in the future orientation and expansion of the
world-wide Faith of Baha'u'llah. I will do everything I possibly can to
help it in its task and assist it in the achievement of its high destiny.
I will pray and supplicate on its behalf the abundant blessings of the
Almighty, that its influence may revive, its number increase, its
activities multiply, its resource develop, and its mission be fulfilled.
Your true and grateful brother,
Shoghi
LETTER OF 8 APRIL 1946
8 April 1946
Dear Baha'i Friends:
Your loving message, addressed to our beloved Guardian, brought him great
joy, and he has instructed me to answer you on his behalf.
We all know how dark, and spiritually dead, the world is today, and how
desperately it stands in nee
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