atulations to the N.S.A. Considering the well-nigh
insufferable obstacles in your way, and the difficult conditions created
by the war, the progress so far achieved, though small, has been
remarkable in many ways, and augurs well for the future of the Six-Year
Plan which your Assembly is so energetically carrying out.

The signal success which the able and untiring efforts of Mr. & Mrs.
Bakhtiari, Mr. M. H. Ilmi ... have won for the Cause in Kashmir deserves
particular mention; and it is to be hoped that the group already
established in that center will steadily develop and soon attain the
status of a Spiritual Assembly. To these dear teachers who have so
successfully accomplished such high teaching mission, as well as to our
new Baha'i brother Moulvi Abdullah of Kashmir who, notwithstanding the
violent opposition and criticisms of the Qadianis has firmly stood by the
Cause, the Guardian wishes you to convey his warmest appreciation and
gratitude.

Financial Assistance to Baha'i Teachers

In connection with your teaching campaign, the Guardian wishes you to
inform the N.S.A. that although there exists in the Cause no such
institution as that of paid teachers, the N.S.A. nevertheless should, in
view of the urgent and pressing requirements of the Six-Year Plan, extend,
though only temporarily, any financial assistance in its power to those
believers who offer to undertake pioneer work throughout India and Burma.
Also, those believers who are not themselves able to offer their services
as pioneers, and who wish to directly and effectively participate in the
campaign of teaching can instead offer to defray, through the National
Fund, the expenses of any believer they choose to deputize for that
purpose. Such deputy teachers, however, should for all other purposes be
responsible to the N.S.A. and the teaching bodies concerned. Great Message
Can Redeem Bewildered Humanity

[From the Guardian:]

I regret that owing to present circumstances arising from the war and its
grave repercussions, the activities, particularly in the teaching field,
connected with the Six-Year Plan, so spontaneously initiated by your
Assembly, have had to be curtailed. I wish to appeal, however, to all its
members, and through them to the general body of the devoted friends in
India and Burma to make a united and supreme endeavour to overcome, while
there is yet time, the obstacles that stand in their way, and to refuse to
allow the perils,