heir
activities, and will continue to lend them whatever assistance that lies
in my power, for the complete discharge of their inescapable duty and the
total fulfilment of their united pledge to the Author of their Faith.

October 16, 1951

First Pilgrims from India

It has been a great pleasure to the beloved Guardian to welcome recently
in Haifa the first pilgrims from India; their love and devotion to the
Faith have brought their brethren in that far-off land very close, and he
hopes that they, in turn, will carry back to the friends there a new sense
of nearness to the World Center at Haifa, and thus serve to create greater
unity and dedication amongst the believers.

Inter-Continental Conference

The Guardian attaches the greatest possible importance to the forthcoming
Inter-continental Conference to be held during the Holy Year in New Delhi;
as the National Assemblies of Persia, United States, Canada, Central and
South America, Iraq, Australia and New Zealand, as well as your own body,
are to send representatives to it, it will, through having eight N.S.A.s
pooling their thoughts and suggestions, be, no doubt, the most important
of the four Inter-continental Conferences to be held. Also, aside from the
numerical importance of the participating bodies, the vast field their
plans must embrace is truly awe-inspiring. In view of this he feels that
the members of your Assembly have very heavy responsibilities to discharge
during the coming months, and that all petty details and misunderstandings
must be put aside, once and for all, in order to ensure a brilliant
success--a success, whose repercussions must be felt during ten years of
Baha'i history between this coming great Jubilee and the Most Great
Jubilee which will take place in 1963.

As convenor of this great Conference you must lay your plans very
carefully to ensure that the representatives of the various N.S.A.s., the
visiting Hands of the Cause, the many Baha'is attending, are properly
accommodated, the sessions of the Conference held in an efficient manner,
and suitable publicity given to this event. The Guardian also suggests
that one or two private sessions could be held at which the N.S.A.
representatives and the Hands of the Cause could meet to better and more
effectively suggest plans for the future campaign. There will, naturally,
be no delegates to the Conference, as it is in no sense a convention, but
more concentrated consultat