During October 1936, the National Assembly of Australia
published the first issue of a newsletter entitled Baha’i Quarterly. As
affirmed by his secretary, the Guardian “read it all through with the deepest
pleasure and satisfaction.” A message from Father and Mother Dunn addressed to
their spiritual children, which appeared in this quarterly, contained these
remarks:
Our appeal to the Baha'i world would be to follow the call
and desire of our beloved Guardian to read and study the 'Divine Plan' ... It
might quicken some . . . to realize that it was the reading of the 'Divine
Plan' that caused Mother and this servant to give up everything in America and
travel to Australia for the purpose of promoting the Baha'i message on this
great continent ... Pioneers must be strong and ready to face all the hardships
that may appear on their path. These are as naught compared with the delights
of loving response and the confirmation that follow.
- O.Z. Whitehead (‘Some Baha’is to Remember’)
