rborough, Canada; Aligarh,
India; Mastung, Pakistan; Huncayo, Peru; Cochabamba, Bolivia; Colombo,
Ceylon; Kuala Lumpur, Malaya; Asmara, Eritrea; Monrovia and Bomi Hills,
Liberia; Tuarabu, Gilbert and Ellice Islands; Baro-bai-Amantai, Indonesia;
and Simatalu Saibi, Simatalu Ulu, Sipipajet, Mentawai Islands.

Of the forty-nine National Haziratu'l-Quds enumerated in the Ten-Year Plan
all but three have already been established, involving the expenditure of
over five hundred and seventy thousand dollars, raising thereby the value
of all the edifices, serving as the national administrative headquarters
of the Faith in all the continents of the globe, to over two and a half
million dollars.

Of the fifty-one countries in which, in accordance with that same Plan,
national Baha'i endowments are to be purchased within the space of a
decade, as many as forty-nine have achieved their goals, through the
expenditure of a sum estimated at more than one hundred and thirty
thousand dollars.

The number of sovereign states, dependencies, as well as territories,
federal districts and states of the United States of America, where the
Baha'i Marriage Certificate is recognized is now over thirty, the latest
additions being Vietnam, Gilbert and Ellice Islands, Indonesia and
Liberia. The number of countries, states as well as cities of the United
States, where the Educational Authorities have recognized the Baha'i Holy
Days now exceeds forty-five, among which are included Israel, the British
Isles, Samoa, Liberia, Tanganyika, the states of Victoria and of South
Australia. Mention in this connection, moreover, should be made of the
recognition officially extended by the authorities of H. M. Kitalya Farm
Prison in Uganda to its recently converted Baha'i inmates to observe these
same Holy Days.

THE QIBLIH OF A WORLD COMMUNITY

In the Holy Land--the Qiblih of a world community, the heart from which the
energizing influences of a vivifying Faith continually stream, and the
seat and center around which the diversified activities of a divinely
appointed Administrative Order revolve--following upon the termination of
the construction of the Bab's holy Sepulcher, marking the closing of the
first chapter in the history of the evolution of the central institutions
of a world Faith, a marked progress in the rise and establishment of these
institutions has been clearly noticeable. The remaining twenty-two pillars
of the International Baha'i