to the war-weary German
people.

In connection with the various points you raise in your letter:

He is very anxious to see the "Sonne der Wahrheit" published again; as it
will greatly assist you in sustaining and guiding the German believers and
in teaching other German-speaking people. He urges you to go on
petitioning the U.S. authorities for permission to resume this important
activity.

That so many members of the former "Baha'i World Union" should now be
seeking enrollment as believers greatly pleases him, and he feels you
should by all means accept them as registered Baha'is, unless you
yourselves have any reason to question some individuals' sincerity.

He would like to receive regularly the minutes of your assembly's meetings
in German; it is not necessary to translate the whole thing each time, but
if a short summary of the important points could also be sent in English
he would appreciate it.

The flourishing activities of the Baha'i Summer School at Esslingen
greatly pleased him, and he is so happy to see the way the friends have
not only protected this Baha'i Home during the long years of war and
persecution, but immediately rallied around it again and made it once more
a source of unity and a center of Baha'i study.

The long sessions of your National Assembly meetings are very essential
for the promotion of the work in Germany and the rehabilitation of the
affairs of the Cause there. In your meetings he urges you to give
considerable attention to carrying out the following very important tasks:
It is of the utmost importance that the friends be well supplied with not
only Baha'i literature, but with a regular Baha'i News letter--the organ of
your assembly--and also with their own magazine, the "Sonne der Wahrheit".
He therefore urges you all to persevere in pushing these publication
matters forward. Needless to say the translation work must also go on
uninterruptedly and receive first attention, as there is now a wealth of
Baha'i literature in English for you to draw upon and which is much needed
by the German friends to help deepen their understanding of the Divine
Cause, and better enable them to teach it.

The teaching work is, of course, the most important of all. He has been
very encouraged to see the efforts the friends are making in the U.S. Zone
and to hear of the good results they are achieving. But the primary
responsibility for this great work rests on your assembly, and you must
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