nd Kotah, the work in
Kashmir and various other centres, has all greatly cheered his heart, and
impelled him to contribute the sum he forwarded through you to help carry
out the many teaching enterprises now under way. The rate at which the
Indian believers are advancing is increasingly entitling them to a
position in the foremost ranks of the Faith, and will no doubt greatly
inspire and encourage other Baha'is of the East to follow their example.
Such prizes are to be won in these days of universal trial and suffering,
and it makes the Guardian very happy to feel that some of them are
evidently going to be merited by the Indian believers!

It is a great deprivation that the friends should be cut off from their
devoted fellow-Baha'is in Burma. We can only hope and pray that
Baha'u'llah will protect and watch over them until the ordeal of these
times is past, and the faithful believers the world over can again join
hands and work together for the peace and progress of the entire world.

Passing of Abd'ul-Jalil Beg Saad

The passing of Abd'ul-Jalil Beg Saad was a great loss to the Faith in
Egypt, and the Guardian was pleased to hear that his co-workers in India
held memorial meetings for him. Such occasions constitute eloquent
testimonials to the profound love that binds Baha'is to each other,
whoever and wherever they may be.

Painstaking and Fruitful Efforts

[From the Guardian:]

I wish to reaffirm my deep sense of satisfaction and gratitude for the
sustained, the painstaking and fruitful efforts exerted so far by the
Indian believers for the promotion of the Six-Year Plan. The limits of the
Faith have been enlarged, the centres and groups have multiplied, and the
determination and zeal of the prosecutors of the Plan are visibly
increasing. I am greatly cheered and encouraged, and will, with redoubled
fervour, pray at the holy Shrines, for the victorious conclusion of the
campaign initiated with such devotion, energy, and resolution. May the
Beloved sustain them in their noble task.

July 27, 1942

The marked, and extremely encouraging, progress which the Cause is making
in India has so pleased the Guardian and cheered his over-burdened heart
that he felt impelled to forward to your Assembly the sum of two hundred
pounds to be expended for the further promotion of the teaching work.

That at such a time, when dangers threaten on every side and the whole
planet is plunged in war and confusion,