a travelling teacher in Germany.

The eagerness of the friends to serve, often carries them away, and they
forget that a sound sense of business management is also much needed, if
we are to harbour our resources and accomplish all our goals.

He was delighted to see that so many of the Baha'is from Germany were
present at the Stockholm Conference, and that they were able to meet with
their colleagues from Austria. He hopes that your teaching work in Austria
will make marked progress during the present year. The Cause there has
been too long neglected, and undoubtedly there is a very fertile field,
waiting only to be cultivated, in order to yield a rich harvest.

It has indeed been a great blessing to the German Community to receive the
visits of so many Hands of the Cause of God from abroad during the past
year.

He hopes that the auxiliary Board for Europe recently established, will be
of great help in the work to be carried out by the administrative bodies
throughout Europe.

The most important thing is to keep the pioneer territories which have
been settled open. There must be no lapse. The friends must be urged to
remain at their posts at all costs. They must remember the glorious
example of Marion Jack, who recently passed away in Bulgaria, after almost
30 years of devoting her life to teaching the Faith in that country of her
choice. As many of you who knew her personally will recall, her health was
very bad, as far back as 1935, when she attended the Esslingen Summer
School. It certainly never improved. She was bombed, evacuated, she slept
in some drafty, cold room in a school in the country, was often, we have
reason to believe, almost hungry, and insufficiently clad after the war,
due to difficulties in getting money through to her in an Soviet-dominated
territory. She never mastered the language, and was without friends of her
own country; and yet, she persevered, and, in spite of even the Guardian's
pleas that she leave the country during the worst years of the war,
remained at her post, and won for herself imperishable fame, her
resting-place becoming a shrine in Bulgaria, which the people of that
country will increasingly honour and cherish.

It is to this glorious soul that the present generation of pioneers must
look for inspiration and example.

He is very happy that the German Baha'is have been able to settle in Crete
and the Frisian Islands, a great step forward, when one realizes how much
their