lities and
distribute with efficiency and promptitude all the glad tidings it
receives from the Holy Land and elsewhere.

November 5, 1924

Letter of May 17, 1926

Shoghi Effendi trusts that your elections are over and that they were
conducted in the proper manner. He earnestly hopes that the new N.S.A.
will be able to accelerate the progress of the Cause in India and Burma
and will bring in the dawning of a new day for the Baha'i movement in
India. Both Shoghi Effendi and the friends have had to satisfy their
eagerness with insufficient progress in the past, and although there are
many difficulties to meet and overcome and in spite of the fact that no
one is more alive to them than Shoghi Effendi himself, we hope and pray
that the future may have great accomplishments in store for us.

May 17, 1926

Letter of March 2, 1929

[From the Guardian:]

I trust that by now a better understanding and more substantial
cooperation has been attained by the friends of India and Burma. It is for
the delegates who are to be chosen by them this year, to elect those whom
they think are best qualified for membership of the National Spiritual
Assembly, and once elected, the unity and efficiency of this body must at
any cost be maintained. I cannot but pray that they may be guided in their
choice, and discharge honourably their functions.

March 2, 1929

Letter of December 17, 1929

He was very glad that your N.S.A. meeting in Bombay was such a success and
he is extremely happy of your decision to hold your next meeting in Burma,
for he shares your hope that by meeting the friends in Burma and
ventilating in a spirit of goodwill all past misunderstandings and
problems, a new and enduring unity of purpose and effort may prevail and
the Cause may make a fresh start.

[From the Guardian:]

I trust and pray that your gathering in Rangoon may prove a landmark in
the history of the Cause in India and Burma and may lend a fresh and
unprecedented impetus to the onward march of the Cause in those lands. May
the Beloved strengthen you and guide you and enable you to consolidate the
foundations of His Faith.

December 17, 1929

Letter of January 14, 1931

He is pleased to hear of the receipt of his cablegram addressed to the
Asian Women's Conference through Prof. Pritam Singh and he sincerely hopes
that the Baha'i members attending will take an active share in its
proceedings and will thereby be p