the obstacles placed in the path of the crusaders
of Baha'u'llah, the historic decision has been arrived at to raise the
Mother Temple of Africa in the City of Kampala, situated in its heart and
constituting a supreme consolation to the masses of oppressed valiant
brethren in the Cradle of the Faith. Every continent of the globe except
Australasia will thereby pride itself on and derive direct spiritual
benefits from its own Ma_sh_riqu'l-A_dh_kar. Befitting recognition will,
moreover, have been accorded the marvelous expansion of the Faith and the
amazing multiplications of its administrative institutions throughout this
continent, a continent fully deserving of a House of Worship,
complementing the four national Haziratu'l-Quds already established,
wherein the spirit of an unconquerable Faith can dwell, within whose walls
the African adherents of the Faith of Baha'u'llah can congregate, and from
which anthems of praise glorifying the Most Great Name can ascend to the
Concourse of the Abha Kingdom.

Transmit message to Hands of the Cause and National Assemblies.

--Shoghi

[Cablegram, August 23, 1955]

Hand of Cause Appointment

Inform Hands and National Assemblies that Varqa's son, 'Ali Muhammad has
been appointed to succeed his father now gathered into the concourse on
high in the Abha Kingdom, as Trustee of Huquq and elevated to rank of Hand
of the Cause.

--Shoghi

[Cablegram, November 15, 1955]

So Significant a Victory

The triumphant termination of the second phase of the decade-long global
Spiritual Crusade on which the followers of the Faith of Baha'u'llah have
so auspiciously embarked impels me to share with the delegates assembled
at the Annual Baha'i Conventions convened in all the continents of the
globe the feelings of joy, of pride and of thankfulness which so
significant a victory has evoked in my heart.

A REMARKABLE VICTORY

The year that has just ended--a year which posterity cannot fail to regard
as one of the most eventful and challenging in the annals of the Formative
Age of the Baha'i Dispensation--has been overshadowed, in the course of its
opening months, by a sudden and highly menacing crisis in the fortunes of
this Faith, a crisis which, though as yet not fully resolved, has already
led to a remarkable victory over the combined forces of its traditional
adversaries in the land of its birth, who, for more than a century, have
plotted assiduously to disrupt