August 8. On this date in 1942, Shoghi Effendi stated "it would be better for either the mothers of Bahá'í children--or some Committee your Assembly might delegate the task to--to choose excerpts from the Sacred Word to be used by the child rather than just something made up."

August 8. On this date in 1942, Shoghi Effendi stated "it would be better for either the mothers of Bahá'í children--or some Committee your Assembly might delegate the task to--to choose excerpts from the Sacred Word to be used by the child rather than just something made up."

1516. Mothers or Others Delegated Should Choose Excerpts from the Sacred Word for Children to Memorize
"The Guardian feels that it would be better for either the mothers of Bahá'í children--or some Committee your Assembly might delegate the task to--to choose excerpts from the Sacred Word to be used by the child rather than just something made up. Of course prayer can be purely spontaneous, but many of the sentences and thoughts combined in Bahá'í writings of a devotional nature are easy to grasp, and the revealed Word is endowed with a power of its own."
(From a letter written on behalf of Shoghi Effendi to the National Spiritual Assembly of the British Isles, August 8, 1942)