l Conference in Rome,
heralding the formation of the Italo-Swiss National Assembly--the fairest
fruit of that mighty Project--these stand out as the distinctive, the
unforgettable, the infinitely meritorious achievements which posterity
will record as the noblest exploits immortalizing the concluding years of
the Second Seven Year Plan, and conferring untold benefits on its
executors throughout the length and breadth of the Great Republic of the
West.

So notable a record, such splendid achievements, investing, as they
inevitably must, the American Baha'i Community, with the potentialities so
essential for the adequate conduct of the impending Ten Year Plan, that
will constitute the third and last stage in the initial epoch, in the
unfoldment of 'Abdu'l-Baha's Plan, and auguring well for the triumphant
conclusion of the present Seven Year Plan, can, and must, if the star of
this enviable community is to continue to rise, rapidly and
uninterruptedly, to its meridian, be converted into a stepping-stone for
the achievements of such feats as will not only outshine the splendor of
the services already enumerated, but constitute a befitting termination to
the second collective enterprise undertaken in American Baha'i history, in
the service of the Cause of Baha'u'llah, and for the execution of the
grand Design conceived by the Center of His Covenant.

The support extended by a self-sacrificing, high-minded, ever alert
community, for the erection of the Drum of the Sepulcher of the Bab and
the raising of its crowning unit--the Dome itself--must, in the course of
this current year, be consistently maintained, both by the individual
members of this community, and the body of its elected representatives.
The assistance required for the acquisition of extensive properties,
comprising both lands and houses, in the immediate neighborhood of the
Most Holy Tomb in Bahji, and for the embellishment of the approaches of
that hallowed Shrine--the Qiblih of the Baha'i world--as a necessary prelude
to the ultimate erection of a befitting Mausoleum to enshrine the remains
of God's Supreme Manifestation on earth, must be generously and
systematically extended. The scheme of landscaping the area surrounding
the recently completed Mother Temple of the West, in time for its
consecration and formal opening for public Baha'i worship, must be rapidly
and carefully carried out. The subsidiary Plan, formulated for the
intensification of the Campaign