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Letter of 8 September 1934 (Summer School) |
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On behalf of the Guardian I wish to thank you for your
deeply-appreciated message of August 11th which conveyed
the gratifying news of the successful conclusion of the
meetings and classes held at the annual Bahá’í summer
school at Esslingen. He was deeply impressed by the large
number of the believers who have attended these gatherings,
and particularly by the fact that they were representative of
so many different communities both in Germany and
abroad. It is his deeply-cherished and long-wished hope that
these annual meetings will in the next few years develop into
an important center for the teaching and training of Bahá’í
teachers, and that through them the knowledge of the Cause
will gain an increasing ground throughout Germany and in
the neighbouring countries and regions. He would urge each
and every one of you to make an effort to attend as regularly
and as whole-heartedly as you can the future classes and
meetings at Esslingen, and to advise your friends to do the
same, so that through the collective and continued labours
of you all these annual gatherings may develop both in their
scope and in their influence.
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The Guardian is ardently supplicating on behalf of you
all, and is praying that Bahá’u’lláh may continue to bless,
enrich and widen the scope of your labours for the
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promotion and consolidation of the Faith in your respective
communities. With his warmest greetings to you all…
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Your message, which I regard as a compelling evidence of
the regenerative power and irresistible march of the Cause
of God has brought immense joy to my heart. The
convocation of such a representative gathering at such a
historic spot, and on the morrow of the unprecedented trials
which, through the mysterious dispensations of Providence
have so severely afflicted the German believers, is indeed a
historic event that every well-wisher of the Cause should
heartily and joyously welcome. A splendid beginning has
been made. I pray that as a result of the unshakable faith
and the persistent endeavours of the German believers this
institution may grow in effectiveness and scope and lend a
mighty impetus to the spread of the Cause in your promising
country.
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