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task will be successfully achieved and that they will be ready to be
submitted to the printers and then to the readers who may be anxiously
awaiting to study them and benefit from their contents.

This work once completed will become a great stimulus to the teaching
activities of the friends, for books can do infinitely more work than
teachers. Sitting in a chair in a solitary corner one is infinitely more
receptive to truth than in a lecture hall or in a discussion group. The
public has learned the habit of reading. It is through that channel
therefore that we have to approach them.

November 19, 1932

He was very glad to obtain some news regarding the translation of Dr.
Esslemont's book into Urdu and Hindi, for he feels deeply interested in
the work. He feels that it is only when such books are accessible to the
public that the Cause will begin to spread and its followers increase in
number.

He, therefore, wishes you to exert your effort along that line so that the
task may be achieved properly and without any needless delay. Also please
keep him informed regarding any new development or any progress made.

We do not now have any pilgrims, but the news we receive from different
parts of the world show great progress achieved by the friends. Even
though material conditions in some instances hamper their activities to an
appreciable extent, yet their devotion and self-sacrifice are daily
winning for them the admiration and sympathy of the world around them.
Every day a new group is formed and new souls attracted to the faith.

[From the Guardian:]

I grieve to learn of the delay in the translation and publication of the
various translations of Dr. Esslemont's valuable book, and I urge you to
do all you possibly can to hasten the realization of our cherished
hopes--hopes which when fulfilled will no doubt lend a great and fresh
impetus to the advancement of the Faith in that land. I am enclosing a
copy of my recent letter concerning the Greatest Holy Leaf and the
measures which, I feel, must be taken by the friends in Persia preliminary
to the formation of the House of Justice.

January 10, 1933

Baha'i Center in Calcutta

He sincerely hopes that through God's infinite blessings the necessary sum
will be forthcoming and that in time a Center worthy of the prestige and
name of the Cause will be purchased or built.

Such institutions greatly help the spread of the Faith, for there will be
a permane