is accompanied by certain physical acts. The
short prayer, consisting of one verse, should be recited once a day at
noon; while the medium prayer should be said three times a day: in the
morning, at noon and in the evening. The believer is entirely free to
choose any one of these three prayers for daily use.

While praying it would be better to turn one's thoughts to the
Manifestation as He continues, in the other world, to be our means of
contact with the Almighty. We can, however, pray directly to God Himself.

April 27, 1937

Progress of Teaching Most Gratifying

The reports of the progress of the teaching work in India and Burma are
most gratifying, and all indicate the high measure of devotion and zeal
which the friends are putting at the service of this most noble and sacred
task. Dr. Ali of Rangoon is specially active working through the press,
and has already succeeded in giving a very wide publicity to the Faith in
many circles, both native and foreign. He is certainly the most promising
teacher we have in Rangoon, and the N.S.A. would do well to encourage him,
and to give him every possible assistance with the view of further
extending the scope of his teaching activities throughout Burma.

[From the Guardian:]

I am so glad ... of the progress of the teaching work in India and Burma.
I pray that Martha's forthcoming visit to your shores may greatly
stimulate the splendid work which has been so nobly initiated and is being
so painstakingly continued.

July 12, 1937

National Fund

I wish, in particular, to express his gratification at the success that
has attended your annual Convention this year, and at the recommendations
and decisions taken by the N.S.A. with the view of intensifying the
teaching campaign throughout India and Burma. He would strongly urge your
Assembly to maintain the standard of the teaching work, and to appeal to
the friends to rise up to the call of the hour, and to be ready to undergo
any sacrifice that their sacred task requires.

Above all he wishes through you to reiterate his wish, already expressed
in his recent cable to the N.S.A., that the National Fund, which
undoubtedly constitutes the bedrock upon which all the activities of the
Cause ultimately rest, should receive the continued and whole-hearted
support of all the believers. Both the local Assemblies and the individual
believers should realize that unless they contribute regularly and
generously t