iser not to make any hard and fast rules about the boundaries of
towns for assembly purposes. However, you should bear in mind that in the
future some proper delineation will be necessary.

As to the question of the Publishing Trust about quoting excerpts from
some of the Meditations; there is no objection to this at all.

He hopes you will be able to find some suitable quarters in London for
your Baha'i Centre; he considers that at the present time, with the heavy
and essential teaching programme you have undertaken, it is out of the
question to purchase headquarters.

The Guardian takes the keenest interest in your Six Year Plan, and he
wishes me to point out to you certain things in this connection: if the
important goals of new Assemblies are to be achieved, he feels you will
have to organise the work on a new basis. England now stands, one might
say, on the brink of a new phase of its Baha'i life; the long years of war
are over, the friends are not only awakened to a sense of their
responsibilities, but have increased in numbers, in zeal, and in unity;
there is a growing number of people who are anxious to do pioneer work.
What is needed is a planned and consistent form of teaching and
administrative support of the activities your Assembly is inaugurating.

He feels the time has come when the British Baha'is' resources are
sufficient to enable them to embark on their teaching campaign in a manner
similar to that already followed by the American and Indian Baha'is. In
other words pioneers who volunteer for work, if they are not able to
support themselves, should be supported by the National Fund until they
either find work or their task is completed.

Likewise travelling teachers should be assisted financially to carry out
the "projects" assigned to them. The friends should not for a moment
confuse this type of support with the creation of a paid clergy. Any
Baha'i can, at the discretion of the N.S.A., receive this necessary
assistance and it is clearly understood it is temporary and only to carry
out a specific plan. Baha'u'llah Himself has not only enjoined on everyone
the duty of teaching His Faith, but stated if you cannot go yourself, to
send someone in your stead. The National Assembly, through and with its
Teaching Committee, should take immediate steps to get pioneers out into
the goal towns and teachers circulating about, to not only support and
inaugurate the new work, but to stimulate the existing Asse