As the activities of the American Bahá'í community expand, and its
world-wide prestige correspondingly increases, the institution of the National
Fund, the bedrock on which all other institutions must necessarily rest and
be established, acquires added importance, and should be increasingly supported
by the entire body of the believers, both in their individual capacities,
and through their collective efforts, whether organized as groups or as local
Assemblies. The supply of funds, in support of the National Treasury,
constitutes, at the present time, the life-blood of those nascent institutions
which you are laboring to erect. Its importance cannot, surely, be
overestimated. Untold blessings shall no doubt crown every effort directed to
that end. I am eagerly and prayerfully awaiting the news of an unprecedented
expansion in so vital an organ of the administrative Order of the Faith.
July 29, 1935