claim, in unmistakable terms, their devotion to the Cause for
which He laid down so heroically His life. The expansion of the activities
initiated by the high-minded and resolute pioneers in Ceylon, Indonesia,
Siam, Malaya and Sarawak indeed merit the highest praise. The efforts
exerted for the multiplication of the institutions of the Faith and their
consolidation both in the subcontinent of India and beyond its confines
augur well for the future of the Plan, the third of its kind embarked upon
by the followers of the Faith of Baha'u'llah, who are destined to play a
predominant part in the unfoldment of His World Order throughout the
territories of South East Asia. The steady endeavours made for the
translation, publication and dissemination of the literature of the Faith
by your Assembly have greatly enriched and ennobled the record of the
services you have rendered it in recent years.

Great as have been the victories already won in its service, the work that
still remains to be accomplished under this same Plan during the fleeting
months that lie ahead is still formidable, and demands unrelaxing
vigilance, heroic self-sacrifice, and inflexible resolve on the part of
not only the elected representatives of these communities but of all their
members as well. The uninterrupted and rapid multiplication of Baha'i
administrative centres; the conversion of groups into assemblies; the
development of isolated centers into

groups; a marked increase in the number of incorporated Local Assemblies;
the early completion of the highly important task assumed in connexion
with the translation and publication of the New Era in the remaining
languages already selected for that purpose; the despatch, without further
delay, of no more than one pioneer for the present to Nepal and
Indo-China, as well as to Zanzibar and Madagascar, in pursuance of the
Plan initiated in both Africa and South East Asia; the maintenance, at any
cost, of the present status of the newly formed assemblies; the
concentration of effort for the promotion of unity and cooperation among
the divers elements that constitute the warp and woof of these
communities--these stand out as the predominating obligations facing the
entire body of the followers of the Faith in the subcontinent of India and
its neighbouring territories.

Nor must the privileged members of these communities, and particularly
their elected representatives, neglect, for a moment, the paramount dut