ly ties, to make an effort to migrate there and seek
employment.

The 19-Month Plan

He was delighted over the formulation of your Assembly's 19-Month Plan.
This spirit of initiative shown by you is highly commendable, and he hopes
that all the Baha'is, whether of Indian or Persian origin, will arise to
unitedly see it achieve its goals. Determination, courage, faith and
perseverance are necessary if the Plan is to be a success, but he feels
sure the friends will not hesitate to demonstrate their capacity to meet
the challenge it presents.

Pioneers to Settle in Africa

He, likewise, wishes to call special attention to the work in Africa which
is very promising and which is going ahead very well. Your Assembly must
do all it can to speedily get pioneers settled in the two countries
allotted to you as your portion in this historic campaign. Also, you
should keep in close touch with the British NSA as they are the
co-ordinators of this work, and well situated in order to give advice as
English experts, having had such a long contact with Africa, its peoples
and problems, are available in London and elsewhere for consultation with
the British Africa Committee. 19-Month Plan--Third of its Kind

[From the Guardian:]

The initiation of the 19-Month Plan by the elected representatives of the
Baha'i Communities of the sub-continent of India and of Burma--the third of
its kind undertaken by them since the inception of the epoch marking the
commencement of the Formative Age of the Baha'i Dispensation--evokes my
deepest admiration. Through this spontaneous act, momentous in its
consequences, and eloquently testifying to the initiative, the zeal and
the valour of the followers of Baha'u'llah in India, Pakistan and Burma,
the body of their elected national representatives can well boast of the
distinction it has achieved, throughout the Baha'i world through the
successive formulation of no less than three far-reaching Plans since the
inauguration of the First Epoch in the history of the systematic
prosecution of Abdu'l-Baha's Divine Plan. This striking demonstration of
their resourcefulness and dedication to the interests of the Faith is,
indeed, highly praiseworthy, extremely encouraging and augurs well for the
future of the Mission which it is theirs to carry out, in the years to
come, not only in that subcontinent and the adjoining territories and
neighbouring islands, but in South Asia as well.

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