which
they are held by their brethren in every continent of the globe.

The completion of the interior ornamentation of the holiest House of
Worship ever to be raised by the followers of the Faith of Baha'u'llah,
the initiation of the landscaping of the immediate approaches of this
sacred and majestic Edifice, the actual launching of the highly promising,
profoundly significant African Campaign, through the arrival and
settlement of American pioneers in both East and West Africa; the
energetic efforts exerted for the multiplication of Baha'i administrative
institutions and the stimulation and consolidation of the all-important
teaching work throughout the States of the American Union; the generous,
the unhesitating and effectual support extended to the newly fledged
communities in Latin America in their efforts for the consolidation of the
administrative structure so laboriously erected in recent years; the ready
and enthusiastic response to the world-wide call for a befitting
celebration by the entire Baha'i world of the hundredth anniversary of the
birth of Baha'u'llah's prophetic Mission; the magnificent services already
rendered by the recently elevated American Hands of the Cause of God, in
diversified spheres of Baha'i activity, at the World Center of the Faith,
in the triple function of hastening the construction of the Bab's
Sepulcher, of consolidating the ties binding the International Baha'i
Council to the civil authorities of Israel, and of completing the design
of the projected Ma_sh_riqu'l-A_dh_kar on Mt. Carmel, as well as in Latin
America; the repeated contributions made for the erection of that
Sepulcher, for the extension of Baha'i international endowments and the
institution of the Haziratu'l-Quds in Kampala; the marvellous loyalty
demonstrated in connection with the repeated defection of members of the
Holy Family and the nefarious activities of Covenant-breakers, both old
and new; as well as the share a number of these Hands have had in
administering a stunning defeat to the enemies of the Faith who, so boldly
and shamelessly sought, through legal action, to challenge the authority
of the Guardian of the Faith, and to publicly humiliate, the institution
created through the provisions of 'Abdu'l-Baha's Testament; the further
unfoldment of the European project through the initiation of the two
historic Conferences held in the Low Countries and in the Iberian
Peninsula, and the convocation of the fatefu