children who...” “128: These Bahá’í children are of such great importance to the future. They...” “129: ...The Guardian feels that it would be better for either the mothers of...” “130: You Bahá’í children and young people have both great privileges and...” “131: The Guardian, in his remarks to ... about parents’ and children’s, wives’...” “132: Regarding your question about children fighting: the statement of the...” “133: You ask him about the fear of God: perhaps the friends do not realize...” “134: He is sorry to hear your little boy is not developing satisfactorily;...” “135: Regarding the questions you asked him: there is no objection to children...” “136: In regard to your question: he feels this is a matter for you and your...” “137: Any Bahá’í can give to the Cause’s Funds, adult or child. No statement...” “138: Just because you are children does not mean you cannot serve the Faith,...” “139: The general principle ... is that a request for excuse from School sessions on...” “140: The beloved Guardian was greatly delighted to learn of the success of the...” “141: The Guardian will pray for the spiritual development of your dear son. On...” “142: The Guardian is happy to see you are teaching the children, as a firm...” “143: In explaining the fear of God to children, there is no objection to...” “144: Individual Bahá’ís may press for getting religion taught in the public...” SUPPLEMENT: EXTRACTS FROM THE TALKS OF ‘ABDU’L-BAHÁ: “145: Among these children many blessed souls will arise, if they be trained...” “146: Educate the children in their infancy in such a way that they may become...” “147: The art of music is divine and effective. It is the food of the soul and...” “148: If a pupil is told that his intelligence is less than his fellow pupils, it is...” “149: ...According to the teachings of Bahá’u’lláh the family, being a human ,...” “150: He promulgated the adoption of the same course of education for man and...” “151: The child must not be oppressed or censured because it is undeveloped; it must...” “152: Bahá’u’lláh has announced that inasmuch as ignorance and lack of...” “153: The education of each child is compulsory.... In addition to this wide-spread...” [FRONTISPIECE] “The newly born babe of that Day excels the wisest and most venerable men of...” The newly born babe of that Day excels the wisest and most venerable men of this time, and the lowliest and most unlearned of that period shall surpass in understanding the most erudite and accomplished divines of this age.... (The Báb, quoted in “The Dawn-Breakers: Nabíl’s Narrative of the Early Days of the Bahá’í Revelation”, trans. and ed. Shoghi Effendi. (London: Bahá’í Publishing Trust, 1975), p. 65) FROM THE WRITINGS OF BAHÁ’U’LLÁH: