atter how urgent and vital the requirements of the teaching work
may be you should under no circumstances neglect the education of your
children, as towards them you have an obligation no less sacred than
towards the Cause.

Any plan or arrangement you may arrive at which would combine your twofold
duties towards your family and the Cause, and would permit you to resume
active work in the field of pioneer teaching, and also to take good care
of your children so as to not jeopardize their future in the Cause would
meet with the whole-hearted approval of the Guardian.

(From a letter dated 17 July 1938 written on behalf of Shoghi Effendi to
an individual believer) [118]

"119: The Guardian wishes me to assure you, in particular, of his
supplications..."

The Guardian wishes me to assure you, in particular, of his supplications
on behalf of your children, that they may, through Divine confirmations
and assistance, and under your loving care and protection, receive such
training as may lead them to fully recognize and unreservedly accept the
Faith, and provide them with the necessary spiritual equipment to
effectively and loyally serve and promote its interests in the future.

As a Baha'i mother you have certainly a most sacred and weighty
responsibility for their spiritual development in the Cause, and you
should from now endeavour to instil into their hearts the love of
Baha'u'llah and thus prepare them for the full recognition and acceptance
of His Station once they attain the age and capacity to do so.

(From a letter dated 20 April, 1939 written on behalf of Shoghi Effendi to
an individual believer) [119]

"120: With regard to your activities in connection with the training
and..."

With regard to your activities in connection with the training and
education of Baha'i children: needless to tell you what a vital importance
the Guardian attaches to such activities, on which so much of the
strength, welfare and growth of the Community must necessarily depend.
What a more sacred privilege, and also what a weightier responsibility
than the task of rearing up the new generation of believers, and of
inculcating into their youthful and receptive minds the principles and
teachings of the Cause, and of thus preparing them to fully assume, and
properly discharge the weighty responsibilities and obligations of their
future life in the Baha'i Community.

(From a letter dated 28 April, 1939 written on behal