easures,
unprecedented in scope, should be carefully and immediately devised,
proclaimed to the believers, and, through sustained and organised effort,
carried into effect. There is no time to lose. The masses, greatly tried
by the calamities of the age, restless, disappointed, and eager to obtain
real and complete relief in their hour of trial, hunger for the Message of
the new Day, and will, if properly approached and appealed to, embrace the
great verities it enshrines. Firm and unassailable unity among those who
profess to be its bearers, unshakeable fidelity to the principles on which
it is founded, generous and unfailing support of the institutions designed
to propagate it, are the vital prerequisites of their urgent and sacred
task. Every consideration, however profitable and laudable, must for the
present be subordinated to the vital needs of the strenuous task now
confronting the Australian and New Zealand Baha'i communities. The
administrative machinery designed to provide the necessary agency for the
diffusion of the Message has been sufficiently consolidated to enable it
to perform the glorious task for which it was originally erected. It
should be utilised to the fullest possible extent. Its scope should
simultaneously be enlarged to provide a still wider basis for the future
extension of teaching activities. May the coming year witness a notable
advance in the organized activities of the community for the furtherance
of so glorious and meritorious a purpose.

Your true brother,
Shoghi.

LETTER OF JULY 16TH, 1946

Haifa, July 16th, 1946.

Dear Baha'i Sister:

Your letter of June 20th has been received, and our beloved Guardian has
instructed me to answer it on his behalf, also to acknowledge receipt of
its enclosures.

He was very glad to see that amongst the actions taken by the N.S.A. at
its recent meeting was to allot sums to the Regional Teaching Committees
for them to carry on active teaching campaigns and finance travelling
teachers and settlers--if possible. He considers this all very important,
and he urges you to appeal to the Baha'is to arise and do pioneer work as
their fellow-believers are doing in England, India, Egypt and America.

He also feels that, if the N.S.A. considers such a course of action
feasible, definite plans should be made for carrying the Cause to certain
goal towns; in other words, a real plan with fixed objectives and a time
limit is now possible for Austra