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Letter of 27 November 1938 |
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He has noted your Assembly’s request for his advice as to what
forms of national service friends may volunteer for in times of
emergency. While the believers, he feels, should exert every
effort to obtain from the authorities a permit exempting them
from active military service in a combatant capacity, it is their
duty at the same time, as loyal and devoted citizens, to offer their
services to their country in any field of national service which is
not specifically aggressive or directly military. Such forms of
national work as air raid precaution service, ambulance corps,
and other humanitarian work or activity of a non-combatant
nature, are the most suitable types of service the friends can
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render, and which they should gladly volunteer for, since in
addition to the fact that they do not involve any violation of the
spirit or principle of the Teachings, they constitute a form of
social and humanitarian service which the Cause holds sacred
and emphatically enjoins.
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The Guardian has noted with genuine satisfaction what you
had written about your recent visit to … and his earnest desire
to become of increasing service to the Faith. We will certainly
pray that he may fully avail himself of the manifold opportunities
that now lie before him of spreading the knowledge of the Cause
in hitherto closed and conservative circles, and of thus drawing
to it the attention of thoughtful and responsible people
throughout Britain.
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The marvellous zeal, unity, understanding and devotion exemplified
by the English believers in recent months, individually as well as
through their concentrated efforts, constitute a landmark in the
progressive development of the Faith in that land. They who have
risen to the height of their present opportunities stand at the threshold
of unprecedented achievements. They must labour continually, exercise
the utmost vigilance, proclaim courageously, and cling tenaciously to
the principles of their Faith, spiritual as well as administrative, and
resolve to endure every sacrifice and hardship, however severe, for the
vindication, the consolidation and recognition of the Faith they profess
and are now so admirably serving.
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