He is very glad to know that you have liked "The Dawn-
Breakers", for his greatest reward is to see that this work, which has
cost him much labour and anxiety, is helping the friends to understand better
and more fully the spirit that animates the Movement and the exemplary life of
the heroic souls that ushered it into the world. The Guardian sincerely hopes
that by reading this book the friends will be stirred to greater activity and a
higher measure of sacrifice, that they will obtain a deeper realization of this
Cause whose spread and ultimate victory is entrusted to their care. As some who
have read the book have remarked, no one can become familiar with those lives
and not be inspired to follow in their way.
It is surely true that the spirit of those heroic souls will
stir many artists to produce their best. It is such lives that in the past
inspired poets and moved the brush of the painters.
- Shoghi Effendi (From a letter dated 20
June 1932, written on behalf of Shoghi Effendi to an individual) [29] The
Compilation of Compilations, vol. III, The Importance of Arts in Promoting the
Faith)
