rom Persia it is
difficult to transfer funds, but he trusts this sum will be of assistance
to you.

The Guardian feels that the assemblies of Cardiff, Dublin and Edinburgh
must receive sustained support, as they are the three most important
assemblies formed under the Plan, and must be built into strong and
flourishing communities, free from any danger of relapse.

He is very happy about the general progress of the work in the British
Isles, and the remarkable, sustained, and self-sacrificing work the
believers are doing, guided and assisted by the devoted efforts of your
Assembly.

You may be sure you are all remembered in his prayers in the Holy Shrines,
and he eagerly awaits news of fresh victories in the teaching field.

[From the Guardian:]

Dearly-beloved friends and co-workers,

The opening of the Final Phase of the First Collective Enterprise
undertaken in the history of the British Baha'i community marks the
closing of a stage of tremendous historic significance in the evolution of
that community and, indeed, in the spiritual history of the British Isles.
Well nigh fifty years after the inception of that community, almost a
quarter of a century after the birth of the Administrative Order, and on
the morrow of the world-wide celebrations of the centenary of the Faith, a
Plan, ambitious in its scope and endowed with vast potentialities, was
nobly and spontaneously conceived by the small band of its devoted
adherents in those islands. An effort, extending over a period of no less
than four years, nation-wide in its range, sustained, systematic,
prodigious has been exerted. A victory unparalleled in British Baha'i
annals has been achieved. Towards its consummation newly won recruits to
the ranks of this growing community, representative of the English, the
Scottish, the Irish and Welsh races have notably contributed. The seeds
sown, with such lavish hands by the Founder of that community in the
course of two successive visits to the United Kingdom, have at last
germinated. The machinery of the Administrative Order, slowly and
laboriously taking shape, on the morrow of His ascension, has, as destined
by Him who delineated its features in His Will and Testament, been put to
the service of this newly conceived Plan, and is now yielding its first
fruits. Born at the turn of the last century, its nucleus formed in the
heart and nerve centre of a far-flung Empire, gestating for over a decade
whilst confined to the