the British Isles, in Germany, in
Australia, in New Zealand, in India, in 'Iraq and in Egypt to undertake
the initial measures designed to enable them to build along the same lines
institutions that bid fair to evolve into the Baha'i universities of the
future.

Among other factors contributing to the expansion and establishment of the
Administrative Order may be mentioned the organized activities of the
Baha'i Youth, already much advanced in Persia and in the United States of
America, and launched more recently in India, in the British Isles, in
Germany, in 'Iraq, in Egypt, in Australia, in Bulgaria, in the Hawaiian
Islands, in Hungary and in Havana. These activities comprise annual
world-wide Baha'i Youth Symposiums, Youth sessions at Baha'i summer
schools, youth bulletins and magazines, an international correspondence
Bureau, facilities for the registration of young people desiring to join
the Faith, the publication of outlines and references for the study of the
teachings and the organization of a Baha'i study group as an official
university activity in a leading American university. They include,
moreover, "study days" held in Baha'i homes and centers, classes for the
study of Esperanto and other languages, the organization of Baha'i
libraries, the opening of reading rooms, the production of Baha'i plays
and pageants, the holding of oratorical contests, the education of
orphans, the organization of classes in public speaking, the holding of
gatherings to perpetuate the memory of historical Baha'i personalities,
inter-group regional conferences and youth sessions held in connection
with Baha'i annual conventions.

Still other factors promoting the development of that Order and
contributing to its consolidation have been the systematic institution of
the Nineteen Day Feast, functioning in most Baha'i communities in East and
West, with its threefold emphasis on the devotional, the administrative
and the social aspects of Baha'i community life; the initiation of
activities designed to prepare a census of Baha'i children, and provide
for them laboratory courses, prayer books and elementary literature, and
the formulation and publication of a body of authoritative statements on
the non-political character of the Faith, on membership in non-Baha'i
religious organizations, on methods of teaching, on the Baha'i attitude
towards war, on the institutions of the Annual Convention, of the Baha'i
Spiritual Assembly, of the Nine