f this is a sample of the Baha'i youth of
Australia, there is, indeed, a wonderful future ahead of that country!

He will be very pleased to receive the picture of Father Dunn's grave as
soon as it is available.

The Guardian assures you and the members of the National Spiritual
Assembly that his prayers are constantly being offered on your behalf. He
is so very pleased with the good news he receives of your activities and
the spread of the Cause in those distant lands.

Only yesterday he was reading a most heartening and enthusiastic report of
the work in Tasmania, which greatly cheered him.

Dark as these days are he feels confident that the Australian and
New-Zealand Baha'is will continue with unabated devotion to carry on their
excellent and exemplary services to the Faith.

His prayers are with them all, and his loving gratitude goes out to you
who lead and co-ordinate their activities.

With warm Baha'i greetings

Yours in the service of the beloved Faith,
R. Rabbani.

[From the Guardian:]

Dearly-beloved co-workers:

In these days when perils are increasingly threatening that far-off
continent, the most distant outpost of our beloved Faith, my thoughts turn
with deepening anxiety, solicitude, and love to those who are so valiantly
holding aloft the banner of the Cause of Baha'u'llah. I appeal to every
one of them, and particularly to the members of the assemblies who
safeguard their interests, not to allow any disturbance, suffering, or
anxiety to dim the splendour of their faith, to deflect them from their
high purpose, to cause any division in their ranks, to interfere with the
steady consolidation and expansion of their activities and institutions. I
will specially pray that the work they have magnificently initiated, and
so marvellously and soundly developed may suffer no setback, but rather
continue to develop and yield its destined fruit. Persevere and rest
assured.

Your true and grateful brother,
Shoghi.

LETTER OF FEB. 23RD, 1942

Haifa, Feb. 23rd, 1942.

Dear Baha'i Sister:

Your letter, with enclosures, of Nov. 8th reached the Guardian safely, and
he has instructed me to answer you on his behalf.

His thoughts and prayers are very often with the Australian Baha'is in
these difficult and dangerous times. They are now facing a much more acute
situation than hitherto. But whatever of trial and affliction the
immediate future may hold for them, we know that the destiny of ma