aliant supporters of the Faith in Australia
and New Zealand is most encouraging, highly meritorious, and truly
exemplary. The work they have achieved, the plans they are devising, the
hopes they cherish for the future, fill me with admiration and evoke my
deepest gratitude. The Beloved will assuredly continue to illumine their
path, to sustain their efforts, and to bless their accomplishments in
these days of unprecedented stress, anxiety, and peril. I will continue to
supplicate for them all His abundant and imperishable blessings.

Your true and grateful brother,
Shoghi.

LETTER OF MARCH 19TH, 1943

Haifa, March 19th, 1943.

Dear Baha'i Sister:

Your letters, written on behalf of the National Spiritual Assembly, and
dated April 21st, 1942 and Nov. 18th, 1942, reached the Guardian, together
with their enclosures, and he has instructed me to answer them on his
behalf.

He regrets the delay in replying to them, but he has been, and still is,
engaged on a work which requires a tremendous amount of his time, and his
correspondence has, of necessity, suffered from it.

The Guardian would prefer sending all cables and moneys etc., to you
direct, but the war regulations, as enforced in this country, prohibit the
use of a postal address in cables or telegrams, and as he does not have
your street address, he has had to do it this way. Please forward your own
address, or the one you care to have used, and it will simplify matters in
the future.

He is delighted to hear that the friends will be able to hold a Convention
in April, and he hopes that, through its deliberations, and the meetings
of the N.S.A. members, far reaching teaching plans will be set afoot and
the Cause in New Zealand and Australia obtain a new impetus. You already
have the nuclei of a number of Spiritual Assemblies in places where there
are a group of believers, and he hopes that through following the methods,
so successful in such countries as India and the United States, of having
both travelling teachers and pioneers or settlers go out you will have a
number of new Spiritual Assemblies by 1944.

He was very pleased to see the increased interest among the friends in
their various Baha'i Summer and Winter Schools, and hopes that these will
increasingly attract students of the Faith, anxious to deepen their
knowledge of its wonderful teachings.

The Australian and New Zealand friends, now feeling the full weight of the
war, its dangers