In connection with your teaching campaign, the Guardian
wishes you to inform the N.S.A. that although there exists in the Cause no such
institution as that of paid teachers, the N.S.A. nevertheless should, in view
of the urgent and pressing requirements of the Six-Year Plan, extend, though
only temporarily, any financial assistance in its power to those believers who
offer to undertake pioneer work throughout India and Burma. Also, those
believers who are not themselves able to offer their services as pioneers, and
who wish to directly and effectively participate in the campaign of teaching
can instead offer to defray, through the National Fund, the expenses of any believer
they choose to deputize for that purpose. Such deputy teachers, however, should
for all other purposes be responsible to the N.S.A. and the teaching bodies
concerned.
- Shoghi Effendi (From a message dated 28 November 1940, written on behalf of Shoghi
Effendi; ‘Dawn of a New Day’)
