netrated.
A greater measure of self-sacrifice, closer cooperation, and a higher
degree of consecration to the task facing them are required of the
believers of India in the course of the second year of the second Baha'i
Century. May the Beloved sustain, aid and bless their concerted and
meritorious endeavours.

March 28, 1945

Letter of December 19, 1949

He admires very much the devoted manner in which the Kolhapur Baha'is have
built up the Spiritual Assembly there and caused that community to be one
of the most active in Southern India. You must not now become discouraged
because some of your teachers have left and gone to serve the Cause
elsewhere. This gives you the opportunity of learning to do more of the
work yourselves, and of also putting your reliance on Baha'u'llah and
realizing that He will assist all those who arise to serve Him.

The Guardian assures you he will pray in the Holy Shrines for your
protection and that God may assist you in your work, aid you to be united
and show the greatest love, one for another, and bless your work.

[From the Guardian:]

May the Almighty guide every step you take in the path of service, and
enable you to proclaim the verities of His Faith, and contribute
effectively to the consolidation of its newly-born institutions.

December 19, 1949

Letter of May 14, 1932

He was surely very sorry to hear of the passing away of your father who
was such an old and devoted servant of the Cause. Such persons, at their
passing, proceed to the presence of Baha'u'llah and partake of His
infinite blessings and divine bounties. They enter into a state which,
should we only have the eye to see, we would envy and earnestly desire. It
is only because we ignore the beautiful and glorious life of the world
beyond that we seem attached to our earthly abode and often forget the
goal of our very existence here.

May 14, 1932

Letter of June 6, 1933

It is to the youth that the Guardian is today eagerly looking, and it is
upon their shoulders that he is laying all the responsibility for the
promotion of the Faith. Theirs is the opportunity to arise and serve to
their utmost this great Cause of God.

June 6, 1933

Letter of December 27, 1933

Concerning the use of alcoholic drinks and drugs the Guardian wishes you
to know that they have been explicitly forbidden in the "Kitab-i-Aqdas".
Opium is, undoubtedly, prohibited. But smoking, though allowed, i