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The Guardian wishes to once again stress the immediate tasks
which face your Assembly: the important—and almost miraculous—work achieved during the closing years of our first Baha’i
Century in forming so many Assemblies, most of them in virgin
territory, should be carefully consolidated through travelling
teachers, additional pioneers (if necessary), extension of financial
help, etc., so that none of them will be weakened and forced
to revert to group status. Also the newly formed groups should
be given every assistance to enable them to become Assemblies
and take part in the administrative order of the Cause in India.
He urges you to concentrate on these three things: the publication
and distribution of the newly translated books; the firm consolidation
of the new Assemblies; and the development of existing
groups, that they may speedily achieve Assembly status.
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In closing let me assure you that the beloved Guardian
cherishes the brightest hopes for the future development of the
Cause there, and expects great things of the Indian believers in
view of the truly remarkable tasks they have been accomplishing
these last few years with such a spirit of zeal and devotion. His
loving prayers are offered on your behalf and for your fellow-members
of the N.S.A., that you may be blessed and guided
always.
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The achievements of the Indian Baha’i Community during
the closing years of the first Baha’i Century have shed a
great lustre on the record of their imperishable services ever
since the inception of the Faith in their vast and promising
country. Both in the teaching and administrative spheres
of Baha’i activity they have assiduously laboured, nobly persevered,
generously given of their resources, consistently
collaborated, achieved mighty victories and raised to a new
level the standard of Baha’i stewardship. The field now
stretching before them during the opening year of the second
Baha’i Century is vast and highly promising. The call is
urgent, the opportunities priceless, the need of the waiting
masses desperate, the machinery for the execution of the
Divine Purpose already erected and vigorously functioning,
the promise of signal victory clear and definite. A higher
degree of administrative efficiency; a closer collaboration
between the various elements constituting the organic Baha’i
Community; a greater measure of self sacrifice; a still more
intensified exertion aiming at the consolidation and preservation
of the newly constituted Assemblies and the rapid conversion
of the existing groups into full-fledged Assemblies; a
systematic, sustained and nation-wide endeavour for the purpose
of disseminating the literature of the Faith, increasing
its volume and adding to its diversity and lastly a more
audacious and convincing presentation of its tenets to the
masses of the people—these constitute the primary tasks facing
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now the Indian believers. That they may achieve their
high destiny is my constant hope and fervent prayer.
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