s, and self-abnegation, have
achieved in the course of four brief years, in so many of the virgin
territories newly opened to His Faith, a measure of success far exceeding
the most sanguine expectations. Such a success, reflected in both the
numerical strength of these territories and the range and solidity of the
achievements of the Baha'i crusaders responsible for their opening and
development, has surpassed to an unbelievable extent the goals set for
them under the Ten-Year Plan.

To Uganda, opened on the eve of the Global Crusade, where the number of
the avowed adherents of the Faith has now passed the eleven hundred mark,
and the number of Baha'i centers exceeds one hundred and eighty, to the
Gilbert and Ellice Islands and Gambia where the number of the believers
has reached five hundred and three hundred respectively, must be added
Mentawai Islands, where adult Baha'is now number over eleven hundred; the
British Cameroons, with well-nigh three hundred adult Baha'is; Mauritius
with over seventy; Basutoland with over fifty; Ruanda-Urundi and the
Seychelles, each with over thirty; Spanish Morocco, Reunion Island, the
French Cameroons, British Togoland, French Togoland, Sikkim, the Canary
Islands, British Guiana, Cape Verde Islands, Ashanti Protectorate,
Swaziland, South Rhodesia, each with over twenty; and Key West, French
Equatorial Africa, Cook Islands, Balearic Islands, French Somaliland,
Italian Somaliland, Cyprus, Morocco International Zone, Samoa Islands,
Mariana Islands, New Hebrides Islands, Solomon Islands, Portuguese Timor,
Bechuanaland, Northern Territories Protectorate, Bahama Islands, and
Brunei, each with between ten and twenty.

CONFERENCES AND INSTITUTES

Nor should reference be omitted in these pages to the surprisingly
numerous conferences and institutes which, in the course of the last
twelve months, have been organized by the enterprising, the indefatigable
and vigilant members of Baha'i communities in various parts of the world,
supplementing the multiple activities carried on with such splendid vigor
in the course of the prosecution of the Ten-Year Plan. A mere enumeration
of these institutes and conferences will serve to reveal their diversity
and scope, and demonstrate the earnestness with which their organizers and
participants are discharging their primary obligation to propagate their
Faith:

The first Southeast Asia Teaching Conference in Djakarta, Indonesia; the
first All-Taiw