“128: These Bahá’í children are of such great importance to the future. They...” These Bahá’í children are of such great importance to the future. They will live in times, and have to meet problems, which never faced their elders. And the Cause alone can equip them to properly serve the needs of a future, war-weary, disillusioned, unhappy humanity. So their task will be very great and a very responsible one, and too much care cannot be devoted to their upbringing and preparation. (From a letter dated 11 January 1942 written on behalf of Shoghi Effendi to an individual believer) [128] “129: ...The Guardian feels that it would be better for either the mothers of...” ...The Guardian feels that it would be better for either the mothers of Bahá’í children—or some Committee your Assembly might delegate the task to—to choose excerpts from the Sacred Words to be used by the child rather than just something made up. Of course prayer can be purely spontaneous, but many of the sentences and thoughts combined in Bahá’í writings of a devotional nature are easy to grasp, and the revealed Word is endowed with a power of its own. (From a letter dated 8 August 1942 written on behalf of Shoghi Effendi to the National Spiritual Assembly of the British Isles) [129] “130: You Bahá’í children and young people have both great privileges and...” You Bahá’í children and young people have both great privileges and great obligations ahead of you, for your generation will be the ones to help build up a new, better and more beautiful world after the dark years of this war are passed. You should prepare yourselves for this great task by trying to grasp the true meaning of the teachings and not just merely accepting them as something you are taught. They are like a wonderful new world of thought just beginning to be explored, and when we realize that Bahá’u’lláh has brought teachings and laws for a thousand years to come, we can readily see that each new generation may find some greater meaning in the writings than the ones gone before did. (From a letter dated 14 October 1942 written on behalf of Shoghi Effendi to some individual believers) [130] “131: The Guardian, in his remarks to ... about parents’ and children’s, wives’...” The Guardian, in his remarks to ... about parents’ and children’s, wives’ and husbands’ relations in America, meant that there is a tendency in that country for children to be too independent of the wishes of their parents and lacking in the respect due to them.... (From a letter dated 22 July 1943 written on behalf of Shoghi Effendi to an individual believer) [131] “132: Regarding your question about children fighting: the statement of the...”