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Letter of 10 September 1936 (Summer School) |
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Our dear friend Miss Köstlin has kindly transmitted to
the Guardian the beautiful message which you have
addressed to him on the occasion of the holding of the fifth
German Bahá’í Summer School at Esslingen, and I wish to
hasten in thanking you on his behalf for the expressions of
loving devotion and the assurances of loyalty which you
have been moved in conveying to him. He profoundly
values the warm sentiments you have expressed, and fully
reciprocates your greetings and good wishes.
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What has particularly rejoiced and cheered his heart is the
realisation that the Esslingen Summer School is steadily
developing and is speedily attaining the character of an
international meeting place for all Bahá’í residents as well as
travellers throughout Europe. The success that has attended
your school this year, as evidenced by both the wide range
and number of the attendants, is truly encouraging and
augurs well for the future of that institution which, we have
every reason to hope, is destined to develop into a leading
Bahá’í University throughout the West.
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The Guardian’s hope is that the German N.S.A. will, as
in the last few years, continue extending to that school the
moral as well as the financial assistance which it needs for
its further expansion, and for a still wider and more
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effective penetration of its influence in every Bahá’í center
throughout Europe.
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He also hopes, and indeed would urge each and every one
of the believers in Germany to extend full and continued
support to the N.S.A. in its highly-meritorious efforts for
the extension and development of the Summer School at
Esslingen. He is confident that through such a close and
whole-hearted collaboration between the individual
believers and the N.S.A. that school will succeed in
gradually fulfilling its unique and truly noble mission, both
with regard to Germany and to Europe as a whole.
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I am thrilled by the tone and character of the joint
message you sent me. The splendid achievements that have
signalized the proceedings of this year’s summer school are a
source of abiding inspiration to me in my work, and will as
a powerful magnet attract future blessings upon the great
and noble work which its organizers are labouring to
promote. I will continue to pray for you and for your work
in such a promising field and for so meritorious a purpose.
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