ion can be obtained through a smaller number
being present. No doubt you will also, without sacrificing the interests
of the Conference, make good use of any visiting teachers and lecturers.

No Harm in Taking Part in Dramas

In the teachings there is nothing against dancing, but the friends should
remember that the standard of Baha'u'llah is modesty and chastity. The
atmosphere of modern dance halls, where so much smoking and drinking and
promiscuity goes on, is very bad, but decent dances are not harmful in
themselves. There is certainly no harm in classical dancing or learning
dancing in school. There is also no harm in taking part in dramas.
Likewise in cinema acting. The harmful thing, nowadays, is not the art
itself but the unfortunate corruption which often surrounds these arts. As
Baha'is we need avoid none of the arts, but acts and the atmosphere that
sometimes go with these professions we should avoid.

Encouraging the Hindu Baha'is

As regards the question you asked about minorities: because the Hindu
believers are a minority at present in the Faith in India, preference
should be given to them in India, where the majority of the population is
Hindu. A special effort should be made to convert them, so that our
enemies may have no excuse for stating that the Cause has scarcely
affected the largest elements in the country. There is also an added
reason for encouraging the Hindu Baha'is because within the Faith in India
they are a minority. In every country throughout the Baha'i World the
Baha'is must make a special effort to attract to the Faith the element
which constitutes the majority, whether religious or national.

The Work is Still Formidable

[From the Guardian:]

The multiplicity of the vital issues that have of late confronted me at
the World Centre of the Faith, the opening of the door of pilgrimage, and
the unexpected problems which, by their urgency, have required my
immediate and close attention have, to my extreme regret, prevented me
from acknowledging, as promptly as I would have wished the communications
which various Baha'i National Assemblies have addressed me in recent
months. I have followed, however, with admiration and keen interest the
progress of the activities initiated under the 19-Month Plan by the
valiant Baha'i Communities of India, Pakistan and Burma. The generous,
unceasing contributions made by them for the completion of the Bab's holy
Sepulchre pro