table
person and a suitable opportunity to call to her attention the facts that
the Baha'i Faith, so widely spread and acknowledged, has nothing to do
with the Caravan which is a purely opportunist organisation and so loosely
knit together as to have almost no power of influencing people one way or
another. To do the wrong thing in a situation such as this would be worse
than to do nothing.

He assures you one and all of his loving prayers for your success in all
you do for the Faith.

[From the Guardian:]

Dear and valued co-workers,

The year that has just elapsed, following upon the swift and spectacular
success achieved by the firmly grounded, the progressive and alert British
Baha'i community in the heart of the African Continent--a success attested
by the triumphant emergence of the Regional Spiritual Assembly of the
Baha'is of Central and East Africa--has witnessed a progress throughout the
length and breadth of the Homefront, as well as in the northern islands in
the neighbourhood of the British Isles, which, though not spectacular,
nevertheless testifies to the earnestness, the devotion and the exemplary
tenacity with which the members of this community are conducting, in all
its aspects, the noble Mission entrusted to their care, and are grappling
with the manifold problems involved in its prosecution.

This present and crucial year must be signalised in the annals of British
Baha'i history by a substantial measure of internal administrative
consolidation and a noticeable expansion in the all-important teaching
field, which will enable the members of this community, now standing on
the threshold of a new and brilliant phase in the unfoldment of their
Mission in foreign fields, to reinforce and broaden the base of their
future operations beyond the confines of their native land.

The splendid work achieved, in such a short space of time, in a field so
distant, and amongst a race so alien in its background, outlook and
customs, must, if the significance of that Mission is to be properly
assessed, be regarded as only a prelude to the series of future campaigns
which the privileged members of the British Baha'i community, residing and
firmly rooted in the heart of a far-flung Commonwealth and Empire, will,
if faithful to such a Mission, launch, in the years ahead, in the islands
of the North Sea and of the Mediterranean, as well as in the remote
territories situated in the Pacific area--campaigns which, in t