only had the work on the Temple
been completed sixteen months before the appointed time, but instead of
one tiny nucleus in every Latin Republic, Spiritual Assemblies had already
been established in Mexico City and Puebla (Mexico), in Buenos Aires
(Argentina), in Guatemala City (Guatemala), in Santiago (Chile), in
Montevideo (Uruguay), in Quito (Ecuador), in Bogota (Colombia), in Lima
(Peru), in Asuncion (Paraguay), in Tegucigalpa (Honduras), in San Salvador
(El-Salvador), in San Jose and Puntarenas (Costa Rica), in Havana (Cuba)
and in Port-au-Prince (Haiti). Extension work, in which newly fledged
Latin American believers were participating, had, moreover, been
initiated, and was being vigorously carried out, in the Republics of
Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Panama and Costa Rica; believers had
established their residence not only in the capital cities of all the
Latin American Republics, but also in such centers as Veracruz, Cananea
and Tacubaya (Mexico), in Balboa and Christobal (Panama), in Recife
(Brazil), in Guayaquil and Ambato (Ecuador), and in Temuco and Magellanes
(Chile); the Spiritual Assemblies of the Baha'is of Mexico City and of San
Jose had been incorporated; in the former city a Baha'i center, comprising
a library, a reading room and a lecture room, had been founded; Baha'i
Youth Symposiums had been observed in Havana, Buenos Aires and Santiago,
whilst a distributing center of Baha'i literature for Latin America had
been established in Buenos Aires.

Nor was this gigantic enterprise destined to be deprived, in its initial
stage, of a blessing that was to cement the spiritual union of the
Americas--a blessing flowing from the sacrifice of one who, at the very
dawn of the Day of the Covenant, had been responsible for the
establishment of the first Baha'i centers in both Europe and the Dominion
of Canada, and who, though seventy years of age and suffering from
ill-health, undertook a six thousand mile voyage to the capital of
Argentina, where, while still on the threshold of her pioneer service, she
suddenly passed away, imparting through such a death to the work initiated
in that Republic an impetus which has already enabled it, through the
establishment of a distributing center of Baha'i literature for Latin
America and through other activities, to assume the foremost position
among its sister Republics.

To May Maxwell, laid to rest in the soil of Argentina; to Hyde Dunn, whose
dust reposes in the