We had heard through various channels the wonderful way your
children had grown to speak about the Cause in public. Shoghi Effendi's hope is
that they will, the three of them, become able and devoted speakers on the
Cause and subjects akin to it. To do this properly they will need a firm
foundation of scientific and literary training which fortunately they are
obtaining. It is just as important for the Bahá'í young boys and girls to
become properly educated in colleges of high standing as it is to be
spiritually developed. The mental as well as the spiritual side of the youth
has to be developed before he can serve the Cause efficiently.
- Shoghi Effendi (From a letter
dated 28 November 1926 written on behalf of Shoghi Effendi to an individual
believer; The Compilation of Compilations, vol. III, Scholarship)
