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Letter of March 28, 1945 |
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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
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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.
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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 penetrated. 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.
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