ese concluding years of the
First Baha'i Century. What the Bombay believers have accomplished in this
respect is noteworthy, and I trust and pray that the Beloved may aid,
sustain and guide them to achieve great victories in the pioneer field in
the days to come.

July 29, 1942

Letter of March 28, 1945

Regarding your question concerning Baha'is printing and circulating matter
on the Faith: Whether the person writes it openly, as a Baha'i, or gives
the impression he is not a Baha'i, (in order to make his statements seem
those of a dispassionate observer and thus carry more weight with some
minds), if he is a voting member of our Faith he should submit the
material to the N.S.A., or its appointed Committee, to be passed upon as
to its accuracy and acceptability. Naturally non-Baha'i material the
individual is free to do as he likes about. The National Assembly should
deal efficiently with such matters and thus encourage the friends to
follow the correct procedure. The whole object in Baha'i administration is
not only to manage the affairs of the Cause, but to stimulate the
believers to work for it and to teach it to the masses. When the N.S.A.
provides competent and quick service, in its own work and that of its
Committees, it will see a far greater manifestation of enthusiasm and
enterprise on the part of the believers.

[From the Guardian:]

The steady extension of the activities of the Indian Baha'i Community, in
accordance with the fundamental administrative principles of the Faith,
constitutes a landmark in the early history of the Formative Age of the
Baha'i Dispensation, and augurs well for the ultimate triumph and official
recognition of the Cause of Baha'u'llah in the course of the second Baha'i
Century. The concerted endeavours of the Indian believers during the
closing years of the first century have been crowned with signal success.
A solid foundation has been laid. The machinery for the systematic and
efficient development of the institutions of the Faith in the capital and
in the provinces is now functioning. Its literature is being widely
disseminated. Its pioneers are labouring in distant fields. What is now
required is an intensification of effort to establish direct contact with
the masses, proclaim audaciously the verities of the Faith, to consolidate
the work already achieved and to lend further impetus to the settlement of
pioneers in areas where the light of the Faith has not as yet pe