Letters from the Guardian to Australia and New Zealand

1897-1957 Shoghi Effendi

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Title: Letters from the Guardian to Australia and New Zealand

Author: Shoghi Effendi

Release Date: September 2006 [Ebook 19274]

Language: English

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Letters from the Guardian to Australia and New Zealand

by Shoghi Effendi

Edition 1, (September 2006)

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Contents

Baha'i Terms of Use . . . . . . Letter of December 2, 1923 . . Letter of May 15th, 1934 . . . Letter of July 26th, 1934 . . . Letter of October 17th, 1934 . Letter of January 16th, 1935 . Letter of April 24th, 1935 . . . Letter of June 19th, 1935 . . . Letter of September 26th, 1935 Letter of January 3rd, 1936 . . Letter of April 15th, 1936 . . . Letter of April 26th, 1936 . . . Letter of June 10th, 1936 . . . Letter of September 23rd, 1936 Letter of September 25th, 1936 Letter of November 17th, 1936 Letter of December 1st, 1936 . Letter of February 4th, 1937 . Letter of March 18th, 1937 . . Letter of August 29th, 1937 . . Letter of August 30th, 1937 . . Letter of January 31st, 1938 . . Letter of March 30th, 1938 . . Letter of June 22nd, 1938 . . . Letter of November 2nd, 1938 Letter of February 15th, 1939 . Letter of March 17th, 1939 . . Letter of July 12th, 1939 . . . Letter of November 4th, 1940 .

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Feb. 23rd, 1942 . . April 18th, 1942 . . March 19th, 1943 . March 14th, 1944 . Oct. 17th, 1944 . . Dec. 12th, 1944 . . March 13th, 1945 . May 13th, 1945 . . Aug. 8th, 1945 . . . March 25th, 1946 . May 25th, 1946 . . July 16th, 1946 . . July 31st, 1946 . . March 14th, 1947 . April 7th, 1947 . . July 22nd, 1947 . . May 11th, 1948 . . Dec. 30th, 1948 . . August 22, 1949 . . 4 September, 1949 . June 28, 1950 . . . 11 September, 1950 Nov. 14, 1950 . . . Jan. 21, -51 . . . . March 1, 1951 . . . March 8th, 1951 . . Sept. 7, 1951 . . . . Sept. 29, 1951 . . . Nov. 20, 1951 . . . December 2, 1951 .

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Letter of December 2, 1923

Fellow-labourers in the Divine Vineyard! Upon my return, after a forced and prolonged absence, to the Holy Land, it is my first and most ardent wish to renew and strengthen those ties of brotherly love and fellowship that bind our hearts together in our common servitude to His Sacred Threshold. The two years that have elapsed since the passing of our beloved Master have been for the Cause, as well as for mankind, years of deep anxiety and strain. The momentous changes that are taking place in the history of both have proved so swift and far-reaching as to arouse in certain hearts a strange misgiving as to their stability and future. On one hand the remarkable revelations of the Beloved’s Will and Testament so amazing in all its aspects, so emphatic in its injunctions, have challenged and perplexed the keenest minds, whilst the ever-increasing confusion of the world, threatened as never before with disruptive forces, fierce rivalries, fresh com- motions and grave disorder, have well-nigh overwhelmed the heart and damped the zeal of even the most enthusiastic believers in the destiny of mankind. And yet, how often we seem to forget the clear and repeated warnings of our beloved Master, who in particular during the concluding years of his mission on earth, laid stress on the severe mental tests that would inevitably sweep over his loved ones of the West ... tests that would purge, purify and prepare them for their noble mission in life. And as to the world’s evil plight, we need but recall the writings and sayings of Bahá’u’lláh, who, more than fifty years ago, declared in terms prophetic the prime cause of the ills and