tish Baha'is have distinguished themselves in recent years to a
degree which has given them great prominence in the entire Baha'i World
and inspired others to follow their example. They cannot and must not lose
this hard-won prominence, but, on the contrary, must demonstrate that it
was not a spurt of speed but the evidence of deep and hardy roots bearing
their first fruits, after years of quiet growth.

He remembers all the members of your Assembly in his prayers, and prays
that the community of believers you serve so devotedly may go on rising to
ever greater heights and shoulder all their tasks with increasing vigour,
faith and devotion....

P.S. Regarding the forthcoming Centenary celebrations: the Guardian feels
both national and local celebrations should be held very much as were
those of the 1944 Centenary, but on a larger scale, with more publicity,
if possible.

[From the Guardian:]

Dear and valued co-workers,

The auspicious launching of the first teaching Crusade undertaken by the
British Baha'i community beyond the borders of its homeland, marks yet
another stage in the evolution of the Baha'i Administrative Order in the
British Isles, and signalises the opening of an epoch of the utmost
significance in the Formative Age of the Baha'i Dispensation. Though the
operation of the Plan is of short duration, yet it constitutes a prelude
to a series of successive campaigns which a firmly knit, vigorously
functioning, clear visioned, intensely alive national community is
destined to initiate, direct and control from its newly consolidated
administrative headquarters in the heart of the British Isles, not only
throughout the Dependencies of the British Crown within the African
Continent, but eventually in the widely scattered Territories of an Empire
whose ramifications extend into every continent of the globe.

A little over half-a-century ago, this community, now invested with a
mandate of the utmost significance both at home and overseas, was called
into being in the course of the opening years of the third and last epoch
of the Heroic Age of the Faith. A decade later, the Appointed Centre of a
Covenant, through the creative and potent energies of which so important a
member of a steadily rising world community was conceived and nurtured,
chose to infuse into that infant community through the impact of His
personality in the course of a twice repeated visit to the heart and
centre of that Empire, a measure