e methods adopted by the American Baha'i
community, the zeal, the initiative, the efficiency, the fidelity with
which they are prosecuting their enterprise should be exemplified by
individuals and Assemblies in India and Burma. The administrative
machinery which the American believers have erected and perfected has
already had its counterpart in the institutions you have so nobly reared
in recent years. Your teaching campaign, the supreme purpose for which
this machinery has been fashioned, should likewise be modelled according
to the plan which your sister community has devised and is now developing
so strenuously and successfully.

November 7, 1936

Welcome Extended to Mr. Schopflocher

He wishes me now to express in particular to you, and to your
distinguished fellow-members in the Indian N.S.A., his most loving
appreciation and thanks for the cordial welcome you have extended to our
dearly-beloved friend, Mr. Siegfried Schopflocher, during his visit to
India and Burma. He is confident that the steps you have taken to render
his trip successful will greatly help in giving the Faith a wide and
long-needed publicity. The opportunity that has been offered you has been
truly splendid, and you certainly deserve to be heartily congratulated for
having fully availed yourselves of it. May the Beloved reward you a
thousand-fold for your ceaseless and devoted endeavours in His Path.

January 7, 1937

Theosophists

With regard to the Theosophists and their activities; although they
obviously try to copy and claim as their own some of the principles of the
Cause, yet the Guardian feels that it would be of no advantage to oppose
them and to refute their arguments. The best attitude for the friends to
adopt in such cases at the present time is to totally disregard and even
neglect their opponents. This has invariably been his advice to the
friends, whether in the East or in the West.

Baha'i Holidays

Regarding the sale of tea and other refreshments in a cinema under
non-Baha'i ownership; those friends who have hired from the owner of the
cinema a stall for the sale of such refreshments should make every effort
to obtain permission to close on Baha'i holidays. In case, however, the
non-Baha'i owner or partner refuses to grant their request their only
alternative is to obey.

The case is different with a bread bakery owned by a believer. In this
case there can be no excuse whatever why the shop sh