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1932-09-10 development of local Baha'i community life
No. 68 - November 1932 - page 2
In a letter dated Haifa, September 10, 1932, the Guardian has written the
National Spiritual Assembly, through his secretary, as follows:
"The Guardian fully agrees with your idea that the permanent welfare of the
Faith demands the steady development of local Baha'i community life. The policy
your Assembly has adopted regarding the publication of Baha'i News, the signing of
a new contract regarding the dome of the Temple, and various measures involving a
strict retrenchment of administrative expenditure, have met with the Guardian's
whole-hearted and unqualified approval. He truly admires the spirit which enables
you to face the rigors and surmount the obstacles of a crisis unprecedented in its
gravity and worldwide in its effects. The constancy, wisdom, courage and loyalty
you have so thoroughly displayed are beyond all praise, and are worthy of your
high station as the standard-bearers of the Administration of the Faith of
Baha'u'llah."
To this letter the Guardian added the following words: "I am moved to add a
few words with my own pen, to what has been written on my behalf, renewing my plea
to you, and through you, to each member of your beloved community, to prosecute
with undiminished vigor, the enterprise which you have so splendidly inaugurated.
The Greatest Holy Leaf, from her retreat of Glory, is watching over you, is
interceding for every one of you and is expecting you to play your part in the
great task with which the prestige of her Father's glorious Cause is so closely
associated. You have, while she lived among us, contributed to a remarkable degree
to the brightening of her earthly life. By your persistent, your heroic endeavors,
you will, I am sure, bring added joy to her soul, and will vindicate afresh your
undying loyalty to her memory."
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