To the Baha’is of Australia
My dearest co-workers in that distant land:-
How great was my joy to learn that in that far-away continent, remote from the
turmoil and restlessness of a weary world, the Voice of God has been raised and
proclaimed and has attracted such a promising number of ardent and faithful
lovers of Baha’u’llah.
I offer you my heartfelt love and sympathy and the assurance of my unfailing
assistance in the great work of service to mankind which is now so gloriously
unfolding itself to your eyes.
I have shared fully your news with those loving pilgrims and resident friends
in the Holy land whom I meet regularly in what was in the past the
audience-chamber of the Master and who thirst after the tidings of the progress
of the Cause in every land. They, and myself with them, will pray most
fervently for every one of you that the seeds of faith and loving fellowship
that you are casting in the soil of hearts may geminate and swell the ever
increasing number of the valiant hosts of Baha and enable them to attain
glorious victory.
I shall await with eager expectation the welcome news of the extension of your
activities, the widening of your correspondence with the various spiritual
centres throughout the world, the plans you contemplate for the spreading of
the Movement and the means you will utilise for their speedy execution. On my
part I shall never neglect to send you such news as will urge you to press
forward your great work for the Cause and hearten you in your labours of love
and devotion at His Sacred Threshold.
Your brother in His Service,
Shoghi
(Messages to the Antipodes)
