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Observe carefully how
education and the arts of civilization bring honor, prosperity, independence
and freedom to a government and its people.
It is, furthermore,
a vital necessity to establish schools throughout ..., even in the smallest
country towns and villages, and to encourage the people in every possible
way to have their children learn to read and write. If necessary, education
should even be made compulsory. Until the nerves and arteries of the nation
stir into life, every measure that is attempted will prove vain; for the
people are as the human body, and determination and the will to struggle
are as the soul, and a soulless body does not move. This dynamic power
is present to a superlative degree in the very nature of the ... people,
and the spread of education will release it.
('Abdu'l-Bahá:
Secret of Divine Civilization, Pages: 111-112)
The Mansion at Bahji, Akka, Israel 
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Several newspapers reported extensively on the jubilee, among them "The Nation" monthly magazine and the "Weekend Observer," which published articles about the Bahá'í Faith on four weekends. Radio Swaziland broadcast several talks on the Faith, both in English and the local language, SiSwati.
Guests received a color booklet produced for the jubilee. It depicts the major events in the history of the Swaziland Bahá'í community and tells of the service of the local Bahá'ís assisted by many traveling teachers from a variety of countries, as well as those Bahá'ís who settled in the country. It also refers to visits by many distinguished Bahá'ís, among them Madame Ruhiyyih Rabbani and other Hands of the Cause, including Collis Featherstone, Leroy Ioas, Rahmatu'llah Muhajir, Adelbert Muhlschlegel, Enoch Olinga, John Robarts, and William Sears.
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