With the opening of this new Baha'i year our Guardian trusts that it will
be marked by a new and greater effort, by a more intense cooperation among
the friends in India and Burma and by an unsurpassed record of success.
Now that Mrs. Schopflocker has in many places broken the ground, it
devolves upon the faithful workers in India to follow up the work, to
seize every opportunity and to give to her hasty and in many places
insufficient services a more permanent and lasting character.
I express the hopes of our Guardian without disregard to your many
problems and difficulties, but the field is so vast and the ground so
fresh and fertile that it cannot but evoke almost unreasonable
expectations. This feeling and yearning, I am sure, is much more yours
than ours could be.
[From the Guardian:]
I urge you to take every means at your disposal ... to follow up the work
that has been so splendidly begun by Mrs. Schopflocker. I would also urge
you to arrange for the preparation of an annual report by the National
Assembly of the activities of the friends in India and Burma, to be
forwarded to the American National Spiritual Assembly for insertion in the
next issue of the Annual Baha'i Year Book. A representative group
photograph of the Baha'is of divers races and creeds in that land would
also greatly enhance the Year Book, if such a thing is possible.