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Unfolding Destiny
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Pages 179-180
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Letter of 18 December 1945
Dear Bahá'í Sister,
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The beloved Guardian has instructed me to acknowledge the
receipt of your two letters dated Aug. 11th and Nov. 9th and to
answer them on his behalf. Their enclosures were also
received....
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He was very pleased to hear that you have had eight new
Bahá'ís since Convention and hopes that this is only a foretaste of
the conversion of souls in far greater numbers in the years lying
ahead of us.
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The Six Year Plan is of the utmost importance, and he urges
your Assembly to continually keep reminding the friends of the
necessity for sustaining their efforts through arising personally
to serve and through giving generously that others may serve in
their place.
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In this connection he hopes you will use the services of Marion
Holley, now Mrs. David Hofman+, to the full. She is a gifted
speaker and writer, and has had invaluable experience in America
as a member of the National Teaching Committee, during the
Seven Year Plan. Both she and Mr. Hofman are wholly dedicated
to the service of the Cause, and eager to do all in their power to
help accomplish the goals of your Six Year Plan.
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He was happy to hear that the Summer School was held
successfully. Now that the war is over, and conditions gradually
returning to normal, he hopes that the British believers will
exert their utmost in serving the Cause and spreading its message.
Although from time to time they will receive the help of outside
Bahá'ís, the major responsibility is theirs, and the lion's share of
the work will naturally fall to them as both their privilege and
their duty.
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He assures you one and all that his ardent prayers sustain you
in your labours for the Faith and he feels sure that with sufficient
effort on the part of all, and the Power of God which inevitably
sustains self-sacrificing service in His Path, the goals can be
gloriously achieved....
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P.S. He was delighted to hear of the welfare of the German
believers. Reports of a similar nature had already reached him,
but no figures had been given.
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[From the Guardian:]
Dearly beloved co-workers,
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I am anxiously waiting for the news of the progress of the Six Year
Plan, upon which the future orientation of the collective activities of
the English believers depends, and with which the immediate destinies
of their Faith are interwoven. No sacrifice is too great to ensure its
success. The utmost effort, vigilance, perseverance and self-sacrifice are
required to carry it to a successful conclusion. If the friends, individually
and collectively, play their part and exert their utmost, the abundant
blessings of Bahá'u'lláh will be fully vouchsafed, and the strength of
the Plan will mark a glorious chapter in the history of the Faith. I
appeal to the entire community to dedicate itself to this sacred and
urgent task, the greatest collective enterprise ever undertaken by the
followers of Bahá'u'lláh in the British Isles.
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Your true and grateful brother,
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Shoghi
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