referred to assemblies to officiate; where there is no Assembly
to officiate your body is free to decide what procedure should be
followed. Whether it is the chairman or secretary or some other person who
actually conducts the marriage is, likewise, a matter for your body to
decide.

The Guardian has not found it desirable, for various reasons, to send a
recorded message to any Convention.

TEACHING THE CANADIAN INDIANS

The work being done by various Baha'is, including our dear Indian
believer(10) who returned from the United States in order to pioneer
amongst his own people, in teaching the Canadian Indians, is one of the
most important fields of activity under your jurisdiction. The Guardian
hopes that ere long many of these original Canadians will take an active
part in Baha'i affairs and arise to redeem their brethren from the
obscurity and despondency into which they have fallen.

The desire of your Assembly to remain in the closest touch with the
Guardian pleases him very much--he assures you that the desire is mutual!

With the assurance of his loving prayers for you all.

Yours in His service,
R. RABBANI.

P.S. The maps you forwarded were of great interest, and he thanks you for
them. He intends to have one of them published in the next edition of
"Baha'i World."

Dear and Valued Co-workers:

The progress achieved in various fields by the members of the Canadian
Baha'i Community under the direction of its national elected
representatives, since the inception of the Five Year Plan, merits the
highest praise, and augurs well for its success in the years that lie
immediately ahead. The spontaneity with which the members of this
community, on the morrow of its having attained an independent, national
existence, have arisen to execute the Plan designed for the furtherance of
its interests and the consolidation of its newly-born institutions, the
zeal and resolution which have characterized the prosecution of the task
entrusted to their care, the notable success they have already achieved in
the initial stages of their enterprise, have served to heighten my
feelings of admiration for those who have directed its course and
participated in its unfoldment, and to evoke the unstinted praise of all
sister communities in both the East and the West.

A GREATER UNANIMITY IN SACRIFICE REQUIRED

Though much has been achieved in the course of the two years that have
elapsed since the formulation of the Pla