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The education
of each child is compulsory.... In addition to this wide-spread education
each child must be taught a profession, art, or trade, so that every member
of the community will be enabled to earn his own livelihood. Work done
in the spirit of service is the highest form of worship....
('Abdu'l-Bahá
on Divine Philosophy, p. 83)
('Abdu'l-Bahá: Education, Page: 313)
Centre for the Study of the Texts & International Bahá'í Library, Mt. Carmel, Haifa, Israel. 
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Two women -- from different countries but with the same aim -- brought the Bahá'í Faith to [the Cook Islands half a century ago.
As part of an internationally co-ordinated effort to spread the Bahá'í Faith around the world, Edith Danielsen, from the United States, and Dulcie Dive, from New Zealand via Australia, arrived here in 1953 and 1954 respectively.
Their efforts soon bore fruit. In March 1955, two Cook Islanders, Tuaine Karotaua (also known as Mr. Peter Titi) followed by Rima Nicholas, became Bahá'ís. A year later, the first Local Spiritual Assembly was formed. The National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of the Cook Islands was first elected in 1985.
Read the entire story.
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