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The Light of Divine Guidance (Volume 2)

  • Author:

  • Shoghi Effendi

  • Source:
  • Bahá’í Publishing Trust of Germany (Bahá’í-Verlag), 1985 edition
  • Pages:
  • 133
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Page 46

Letter of 1 February 1938

46
1 February 1938
The Guardian was pleased to receive your letter of the 22nd January which you had written him on behalf of the Vienna Assembly regarding the method of Bahá’í elections.
He wishes you to kindly inform your fellow-members that this question of Bahá’í electoral procedure has been explained and elucidated by him in one of his communications to the American N.S.A. which you will find reproduced in the book “Bahá’í Administration”, a copy of which is being mailed to you for presentation to your Assembly.
As you will notice from that letter the method of assembly elections is exceedingly simple, and the Guardian wishes the friends to desist from adding any more regulations to those few ones which he has felt it his duty to lay down for the conduct of the believers.
In closing kindly convey to the friends in Vienna, and in particular to your fellow-workers in the Assembly, the assurances of his prayers for the success of their elections, and for the promotion and guidance of their community…
[From the Guardian:]
May the all-conquering, all-embracing Spirit of Bahá’u’lláh overshadow you and your dearly-loved co-workers at all times and under all circumstances, and enable you to raise the Call of God throughout the length and breadth of your country, and establish firmly the basis of the administrative order of the Faith.
Your true brother,
Shoghi