There is no objection to permitting the name of a Baha'i or his relative,
to be placed on a stone incorporated in some Baha'i building he has
donated to the Faith.
He is delighted with the progress your work is making in every field, and
he urges you all to continually stimulate and inspire the friends to make
ever greater effort and sacrifice in the service of their beloved Faith.
The opportunity is unique and the rewards of Baha'u'llah inestimably
glorious.
[From the Guardian:]
My heart swells with joy, pride, and gratitude as I contemplate the range
of the services rendered in recent years by the Indian believers to the
Cause of Baha'u'llah. I particularly rejoice at the splendid initiative,
the magnificent zeal, the unconquerable spirit that have characterised
their recent understanding associated with the new Plan which they have
audaciously conceived, and which, I feel confident, they will prosecute
with exemplary vigour and constancy. Simultaneous with the united efforts
that must be strenuously exerted to ensure its success, a systematic
endeavour must be made to proclaim the verities of our glorious Faith to
the masses, and to disseminate far and wide its literature. This threefold
task requires the concentrated and sustained attention of the rank and
file of the believers, the subordination of every consideration to its
paramount interests, the extension of generous financial assistance to the
agencies designed for its promotion. The believers in India have set an
inspiring example to their fellow-believers throughout the East, and even
to the great mass of their co-religionists in Baha'u'llah's native land,
and have abundantly demonstrated to them all, what organized activity,
boldly conceived and soundly and energetically conducted, can achieve when
directed and animated by the ennobling influences and the generative
spirit of the Faith of Baha'u'llah. Their exploits are indeed unsurpassed
by those of any community throughout the Baha'i world except those which
stand associated with the community that may well claim to be the
standard-bearer of the Cause of God in the West. That these exploits may
be the forerunners of still mightier and nobler achievements is my fervent
hope and prayer.