to kindly
congratulate the Sydney Assembly for this splendid success which their
teaching efforts have won, and to urge them to continue in their
endeavours for the attraction and confirmation of New Souls. May the
Beloved aid, sustain and ever bless them in His service.

The Guardian is delighted to learn that the necessary arrangements for the
holding of your next Annual Convention have been completed, and while he
deplores the fact that owing to the long distances that separate the
centers full attendance at this national gathering would not be feasible,
he nevertheless hopes that it will be a most successful meeting, and will
be marked all through by a perfect spirit of unity and fellowship. He
wishes you to assure the delegates of his prayers for the success of their
deliberations, and to convey to them his warmest greetings and best wishes
for a happy Ridvan.

Yours ever in His Service,
H. Rabbani.

P.S. Shoghi Effendi wishes me to express his thanks for the four
reproductions of the Adelaide Assembly registration form and trust which
you had enclosed in your letter, one of which he has ordered to be placed
in Baha'u'llah's Mansion at Bahji, and another one he wishes to
incorporate in the manuscript of the next "Baha'i World" (vol. VII).

H.R.

[From the Guardian:]

Dear and valued co-worker:

I am truly gratified and delighted to receive so many evidences of the
zeal, the loyalty and the devotion with which the believers in Australia
and New-Zealand are extending the range of their historic activities. I
feel deeply grateful to them. I will most assuredly pray for them that the
Beloved may bless their high endeavours and aid them to establish His
Cause and proclaim far and wide its verities and teachings.

Shoghi.

LETTER OF AUGUST 29TH, 1937

August 29th, 1937

Beloved Baha'i Sister,

Your welcome communication of June 30 written on behalf of the N.S.A., as
well as the accompanying papers and reports have all been received, and
their contents read with keenest interest and appreciation by our beloved
Guardian.

How rejoiced he feels to witness the increasing evidences of the growing
progress of the community of the Australian and New-Zealand believers. The
considerable work that they have accomplished during the last few years,
in both the teaching and the administrative fields, could not indeed have
been carried out without the wise and effective leadership of your N.S.A.
who, ever