"128: These Baha'i children are of such great importance to the future.
They..."

These Baha'i children are of such great importance to the future. They
will live in times, and have to meet problems, which never faced their
elders. And the Cause alone can equip them to properly serve the needs of
a future, war-weary, disillusioned, unhappy humanity. So their task will
be very great and a very responsible one, and too much care cannot be
devoted to their upbringing and preparation.

(From a letter dated 11 January 1942 written on behalf of Shoghi Effendi
to an individual believer) [128]

"129: ...The Guardian feels that it would be better for either the mothers
of..."

...The Guardian feels that it would be better for either the mothers of
Baha'i children--or some Committee your Assembly might delegate the task
to--to choose excerpts from the Sacred Words to be used by the child rather
than just something made up. Of course prayer can be purely spontaneous,
but many of the sentences and thoughts combined in Baha'i writings of a
devotional nature are easy to grasp, and the revealed Word is endowed with
a power of its own.

(From a letter dated 8 August 1942 written on behalf of Shoghi Effendi to
the National Spiritual Assembly of the British Isles) [129]

"130: You Baha'i children and young people have both great privileges
and..."

You Baha'i children and young people have both great privileges and great
obligations ahead of you, for your generation will be the ones to help
build up a new, better and more beautiful world after the dark years of
this war are passed. You should prepare yourselves for this great task by
trying to grasp the true meaning of the teachings and not just merely
accepting them as something you are taught. They are like a wonderful new
world of thought just beginning to be explored, and when we realize that
Baha'u'llah has brought teachings and laws for a thousand years to come,
we can readily see that each new generation may find some greater meaning
in the writings than the ones gone before did.

(From a letter dated 14 October 1942 written on behalf of Shoghi Effendi
to some individual believers) [130]

"131: The Guardian, in his remarks to ... about parents' and children's,
wives'..."

The Guardian, in his remarks to ... about parents' and children's, wives'
and husbands' relations in America, meant that there is a tendency in that
country for children