With regard to the Baha'i Fund, recently established amongst the friends,
I trust that the matter now stands clear to every one throughout the
country. As I have previously intimated, although individual friends and
local Assemblies are absolutely free to specify the object and purpose of
their donations to the National Spiritual Assembly, yet, in my opinion, I
regard it of the utmost vital importance that individuals, as well as
local Assemblies, throughout the land should, in view of the paramount
importance of National Teaching and as an evidence of their absolute
confidence in their national representatives, endeavor, however small at
first, to contribute freely towards the upkeep and the increase of the
National Baha'i Fund, so that the members of the National Assembly may at
their full discretion expend it for whatever they deem urgent and
necessary.