Shoghi Effendi wishes me to acknowledge the receipt of your letter dated
Feb. 13th, 1932. He was very glad to know that you have recovered your
health and can resume your work as well as services to the Cause. We
surely cannot afford seeing the competent servants of the Faith
handicapped by their health. They are too few to be spared so easily.

Shoghi Effendi was very glad to know that the new edition of the Iqan has
reached you safely and that you are going to use it in going over your
translation into German. He is surely very sorry that not knowing Persian
you cannot go to the very original. He sincerely hopes that before long we
will have some of the younger members of the German Baha'is who would make
translation their life-work, and with that object in mind make a thorough
study of Persian and Arabic. They would surely be rendering a wonderful
service to their nation as well as to the Faith as a whole.

In closing may I assure you of Shoghi Effendi's prayers and best wishes.
He will always be waiting to hear of the wonderful progress the Faith is
making in Germany and of the role you are playing in it....

[From the Guardian:]

Dear co-worker:

I wish to add a few words in person and assure you of my keen and
heartfelt appreciation of your high and painstaking endeavours for the
spread and consolidation of the Faith in that land. The German believers
have undergone tests of unprecedented severity. They have weathered the
storm in a marvellous spirit and with fine and praiseworthy determination.
These tests were God-sent, and will serve to deepen the roots of the Faith
in that promising country. Wishing you success in your devoted labours and
assuring you of my prayers in your behalf.

Your true brother,
Shoghi

LETTER OF 30 MARCH 1932

30 March 1932

Dear Baha'i brothers and sisters:

Shoghi Effendi wishes me to acknowledge the receipt of your letter written
at the occasion of the Naw-Ruz feast and conveying the greetings of the
season. He wants me to reciprocate these feelings and express his hope
that during this new year, which has just begun, the Cause may make a
progress in Germany unsurpassed in the history of the Cause in that land.

The world as a whole, but especially the people of that continent of
Europe, is suffering great calamities as a result of wars, social
dissatisfaction, fear, hatred and jealousies. And these forces of darkness
are leading humanity to absolute destruct