|  | Letter of 8 September 1934 (Summer School) | 
	| 1 | Dear Friends and co-workers, | 
	| 2 | On behalf of the Guardian I wish to thank you for your 
deeply-appreciated message of August 11th which conveyed 
the gratifying news of the successful conclusion of the 
meetings and classes held at the annual Bahá'í summer 
school at Esslingen.  He was deeply impressed by the large 
number of the believers who have attended these gatherings, 
and particularly by the fact that they were representative of 
so many different communities both in Germany and 
abroad.  It is his deeply-cherished and long-wished hope that 
these annual meetings will in the next few years develop into 
an important center for the teaching and training of Bahá'í 
teachers, and that through them the knowledge of the Cause 
will gain an increasing ground throughout Germany and in 
the neighbouring countries and regions.  He would urge each 
and every one of you to make an effort to attend as regularly 
and as whole-heartedly as you can the future classes and 
meetings at Esslingen, and to advise your friends to do the 
same, so that through the collective and continued labours 
of you all these annual gatherings may develop both in their 
scope and in their influence. | 
	| 3 | The Guardian is ardently supplicating on behalf of you 
all, and is praying that Bahá'u'lláh may continue to bless, 
enrich and widen the scope of your labours for the 
 
promotion and consolidation of the Faith in your respective 
communities.  With his warmest greetings to you all... | 
	| 4 | [From the Guardian:] | 
	| 5 | Dearly-beloved co-workers: | 
	| 6 | Your message, which I regard as a compelling evidence of 
the regenerative power and irresistible march of the Cause 
of God has brought immense joy to my heart.  The 
convocation of such a representative gathering at such a 
historic spot, and on the morrow of the unprecedented trials 
which, through the mysterious dispensations of Providence 
have so severely afflicted the German believers, is indeed a 
historic event that every well-wisher of the Cause should 
heartily and joyously welcome.  A splendid beginning has 
been made.  I pray that as a result of the unshakable faith 
and the persistent endeavours of the German believers this 
institution may grow in effectiveness and scope and lend a 
mighty impetus to the spread of the Cause in your promising 
country. | 
	| 7 | Your true brother, | 
	| 8 | Shoghi |