constancy, the loyalty and the determination with which the
national representatives of the believers in Australia and New-Zealand are
prosecuting the noble work entrusted to them by the Almighty. I would urge
you to take the necessary steps for the incorporation of your national
assembly as soon as you adopt your Declaration of Trust and By-Laws, and I
pray that the almighty hand of Baha'u'llah may guide and sustain you in
your high and historic endeavours.

Your true and grateful brother,
Shoghi.

LETTER OF JUNE 19TH, 1935

June 19th, 1935

Dear Baha'i Sister,

The Guardian has received your letter dated May 8th, and has carefully
read and considered its contents. He wishes me to thank you for it, and
specially to convey to you, as well as to the other members of your
N.S.A., his hearty congratulations over the success that has attended your
national elections this year. He hopes and prays that as years go by your
Assembly will increasingly grow in unity and strength, and will
demonstrate its capacity to cope with the manifold problems and
difficulties with which it will be inevitably confronted as it forges
ahead in its slow though steady progress towards the firmer establishment
of Baha'u'llah's World Order throughout Australia and New-Zealand.

With regard to your question as to the advisability of disclosing to an
individual believer the contents of the N.S.A.'s correspondence. The
Guardian thinks that although this cannot be considered as constituting an
obligation which a believer can impose upon the national body, yet, it
would seem highly advisable that the N.S.A. should give a sympathetic
consideration to any such request made to it by a believer. This, he
feels, would avoid giving the impression that the assembly is working in
an atmosphere of complete secrecy, and that it is motivated by dictatorial
motives. The final decision in such matters; however, is entirely left to
the discretion of the N.S.A. The basic principle that should always be
remembered is that the N.S.A. cannot be required to reveal to any outsider
all the details concerning its work. It may choose to do so if it wishes,
but nobody has the right to enforce upon it any such action: This is, of
course the purely legal side of the question. But a purely legalistic
attitude in matters affecting the Cause, particularly now that the Faith
is still in a state of infancy, is not only inadequate but fraught with
unforeseen dangers