s who have
forwarded Huquq to him and contributions for the building of the
Super-structure of the Bab's Shrine.

This building is now beginning to take shape and promises to be very
beautiful, befitting and dignified. It is the realization of the fond hope
of the beloved Master, who stated to Badi Bushrui one day, as He looked up
at the building He Himself had already completed: "The Shrine is as yet
unbuilt.... God willing, it will be built. We have brought it up to this
stage."

The friends should be told this, as many of them do not realize it was the
Master's own plan to go much further, and erect a dome over the Resting
Place of the Bab.

Keep in Close Touch With Pioneers

The Guardian desires your Assembly to keep in close touch with your
pioneers abroad and give them strong moral, as well as financial support.
It will please you to know two Dutch Baha'is are going out to Indonesia,
and he has asked them to communicate with your Assembly and cooperate with
you in spreading the Faith there and in having at least a pamphlet, to
begin with, translated into the most needed native language.

His heart has been very anxious over the fate of the believers in Burma,
and it relieved him greatly to hear that you received news they were safe.
Please assure them his loving prayers are with them and offered for their
protection.

End of Six-Year Plan Approaches

[From the Guardian:]

As the end of the Plan to which your community stands committed inexorably
approaches, my anxious thoughts increasingly turn towards you and your
fellow workers, on whose shoulders a staggering responsibility--grave as
well as inescapable--is weighing so heavily in these days. I am fully aware
of the character of the manifold and unexpected trials this community has
been called upon to face in India, Pakistan and Burma since its inception.
The ordeal of internal disorder and of civil strife; the dislocation of
the machinery of internal administration, the inevitable consequence of
the vast political changes that have been effected in these countries; the
reverses suffered by this same community through the temporary seizure of
its newly acquired administrative headquarters and the loss of some of its
precious assets in both India and Burma; the hardships endured by the
pioneers of this community as well as its administrators as a consequence
of severely imposed restrictions, outbursts of fanaticism and civil
riots--have