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Financial Assistance to Baha’i Teachers |
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In connection with your teaching campaign, the Guardian
wishes you to inform the N.S.A. that although there exists in
the Cause no such institution as that of paid teachers, the N.S.A.
nevertheless should, in view of the urgent and pressing requirements
of the Six-Year Plan, extend, though only temporarily, any
financial assistance in its power to those believers who offer to
undertake pioneer work throughout India and Burma. Also,
those believers who are not themselves able to offer their services
as pioneers, and who wish to directly and effectively participate
in the campaign of teaching can instead offer to defray,
through the National Fund, the expenses of any believer they
choose to deputize for that purpose. Such deputy teachers, however,
should for all other purposes be responsible to the N.S.A.
and the teaching bodies concerned.
Great Message Can Redeem Bewildered
Humanity
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I regret that owing to present circumstances arising from
the war and its grave repercussions, the activities, particularly
in the teaching field, connected with the Six-Year Plan, so
spontaneously initiated by your Assembly, have had to be
curtailed. I wish to appeal, however, to all its members, and
through them to the general body of the devoted friends in
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India and Burma to make a united and supreme endeavour
to overcome, while there is yet time, the obstacles that stand
in their way, and to refuse to allow the perils, the uncertainties
and anxieties that face and afflict their country to deter
them from carrying out the original plan they have so nobly
conceived. Let them remember that a firm resolution on
their part, an absolute rededication of their resources, and an
actual attempt to translate into action their meritorious
intentions, coupled with perseverance in the discharge of
their duties, would suffice to ensure the success of the mission
to which they are now committed. The time is indeed ripe,
and the minds and hearts of the suffering multitudes are
being mysteriously prepared for the Great Message that can
alone redeem, exalt and regenerate a sore-tried and bewildered
humanity. I will specially and fervently pray for the
success of any and every effort the dearly-beloved friends in
India and Burma may arise to exert.
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