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Letter of 1 October 1933 (Summer School) 52 |
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The Guardian has just received your beautiful message of
Sep. 3rd, 33, written through the kindness of Miss Jack,
and he has directed me to thank you all for the success that
has attended your summer school classes at Esslingen. The
importance and significance of such annual gatherings are
immense, since they offer each and every one of you a
unique opportunity to come and discuss together the ways
and means whereby the Faith can extend and develop
throughout Germany. By the collective spirit, the unity and
the enthusiasm they create, these meetings serve to
strengthen the bonds of amity and cooperation among the
friends and to give them a new vision of the Cause, of its
imperative needs and requirements in these days of political
agitation and strife. The social and political conditions in
your land are, indeed, very distressing, and if they remain
unchanged for a long time, may hamper the progress of the
Faith. It is now that you should work in utmost unity and in
the spirit of an unflinching devotion to the ideals and
teachings of the Cause.
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Shoghi Effendi hopes that your summer school will
increasingly develop and will become an important center
for the spread of the Message. You should try to raise its
intellectual as well as its spiritual standard and to pave the
way for its future development into one of the foremost
Bahá’í universities in the West. Much stress should be laid
on the thorough study of the history and of the teachings of
the Cause, and particularly of the nature, basis and
outstanding features of the Administration. The severe tests
and trials through which our German brethren have passed
during the last few years clearly demonstrate how much
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they are in need of a full comprehension of the
administrative basis of the Cause. It is hoped that in the
coming years much progress will be achieved in this respect.
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It is such a joy to learn that you have had the pleasure and
benefit of the companionship of our dear and distinguished
Bahá’í sister, Miss Jack, whose recent and exemplary
services we all deeply appreciate. I will remember you all in
my prayers at the holy shrines, and will supplicate for you
the Beloved’s richest blessings. May He guide your steps and
cheer your hearts in the service of His glorious and sacred
Faith,
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