The Guardian has been greatly impressed by the unusually wide attendance at this year’s national Convention. His hope is that this active and close collaboration among the believers in Germany and Austria will continue to manifest itself in all your local as well as national Bahá’í activities throughout the coming year. He is entreating Bahá’u’lláh, that His confirmations may keep, strengthen and inspire you in the fulfilment of your most urgent and sacred mission. With the renewed expression of his heartfelt appreciations and thanks, and with his cordial and most loving greetings to you all... [From the Guardian:] Dearest co-workers: Your impressive and most welcome message has revealed afresh the potency of the irresistible power of our Faith as manifested in the renewed activities, the solidarity, the consciousness and determination of the assembled representatives of the German believers. This year’s convention marks a turning point in the history of the Cause in your land. It eloquently testifies to the tenacity of your faith, to your grasp of its distinguishing features and essential principles, to your firm resolve to lay an unassailable basis for the rising institutions, to your capacity to weather the fiercest storms and overcome the most formidable obstacles, to your worthiness to rank as the standard-bearers of the Faith of Bahá’u’lláh in the continent of Europe. May signal victories crown your high endeavours. Shoghi LETTER OF 5 JULY 1935 5 July 1935 Beloved Bahá’í Brother, On behalf of the Guardian I wish to acknowledge the receipt of your welcome letter of the fourteenth of June last, written in the name of the Archives-Committee of the German N.S.A., and to convey to you and to them his loving appreciation and thanks. He trusts that his gift, offered to your National Archives through the kind care of Miss Edith Horn, will serve to remind the German believers of the importance and sacred character of that institution, and to encourage them to help in contributing their full share towards its further development and expansion. The institution of the National Bahá’í Archives which all the National Assemblies have already established is, indeed, highly-important, the significance of which will be increasingly realized as years go by. It is now that so many precious sacred relics are still in the possession of individual believers, that steps must be taken in order to insure their safe preservation in the National Archives. The friends must be encouraged to cooperate with their N.S.A. for the attainment of this objective. In closing may I assure you again of Shoghi Effendi’s best wishes and prayers for you and family, and to express hope that your long-cherished desire to visit the Holy Land may be realized in the near future. With his cordial greetings... [From the Guardian:] Dear and prized co-worker: