eration from
them and financial assistance which they might be able to give you in
publishing some of the literature in the African languages.

He thinks your Assembly's decision regarding spiritual healing being
demonstrated at a Baha'i meeting was quite sound. We should try not to
have the Faith identified with such things in the eyes of the public,
officially. What the believers do privately, which in no way contravenes
the Teachings, is their own affair.

As regards the Obligatory Prayers, the friends in the West should continue
to use them exactly as they have been doing, and as is set forth in the
remarks in parentheses which accompany the prayers in the book "Prayers
and Meditations". The Guardian himself will, whenever he sees fit, and
considers the time is ripe, inform the friends in such matters in greater
detail.

Of all the work being undertaken by the believers, East and West, at the
present time, undoubtedly the most urgent is that of getting the pioneers
out to the goal countries during this year, if possible. Not only will
spiritual strength accrue from this settlement of so many new lands, but
the prestige it gives us in the eyes of the non-Baha'is is great. He fully
realises heavy burdens have been placed upon the shoulders of all the
Baha'is, and particularly upon the members of the twelve N.S.A.s directing
this great crusade. But who else except the believers can do the work of
Baha'u'llah? And short of accomplishing His work, where else lies hope for
this confused and sorely-tried world?

In spite of your many problems, he feels confident that you will find
amongst the valiant members of the British Baha'i community sufficient
volunteers to enable you to fill your virgin territories and islands with
at least one pioneer per place. As he has already pointed out, there can
be exchange; in other words, one Assembly can make use of volunteers for
its goals from amongst believers under the jurisdiction of another N.S.A.
if such are available.

In spite of your financial position and the work that lies ahead, the
Guardian has felt it wise and necessary for you to take steps to purchase
a national headquarters. When we remember that England is one of the
oldest Baha'i countries, so to speak, in the West, and that in spite of
her distinction she is still without a suitable seat for her national
Baha'i administration, we see how important it is for her, on the eve of
this great period of expansion, to h