The Guardian was most pleased to receive your letter of the 3rd inst. and
has noted with genuine satisfaction the farewell meeting which the N.S.A.
had arranged in Bombay in honour of our indefatigable and distinguished
Baha'i sister Miss Martha L. Root on the occasion of her departure to
Australia.
The feelings of unbounded joy with which you all unanimously acclaimed her
arrival in India, and the expressions of deep and sorrowful regret which
your National Assembly, as the official mouthpiece of all the Indian and
Burmese believers, had been moved to convey to her upon her leaving your
shores, all attest the high value which the friends have attached to her
presence in India and the splendid work accomplished by her throughout her
travels in that country. The cooperation she had received from the
Assemblies and individual believers in every centre she visited, and the
effective support, both moral and material, so lovingly and continually
extended to her by the N.S.A. in the execution of her teaching plans, have
contributed to a marked degree to the success of her journey, which has
been indeed the longest and most fruitful she had ever undertaken to your
shores.
The Guardian hopes that the friends, and in particular the N.S.A., will
now endeavour to follow up, with united and unflinching resolve, the
splendid work accomplished by Miss Root. The contacts she has formed with
leading personalities in social, religious and university circles should
be maintained, nay extended and consolidated, and every effort exerted in
order to speed up the progress of the teaching work which has received
such a fresh impetus as a result of her uninterrupted teaching activity
during this past year.