narrow limits of the English territory whence it
first sprang, energised, after having lain dormant for no less than ten
years, through the twice repeated journeys of the Centre of Baha'u'llah's
Covenant to both the English and Scottish capitals, shaped and trained
through the processes of a divinely conceived, slowly evolving
Administrative Order, propelled along the broad highroad of its destiny in
direct consequence of the initial operation of the First Plan set in
operation for its further unfoldment, emerging as a truly representative
and firmly-knit community, at the conclusion of the Initial Phase of that
Plan through the spread of its ramifications among the peoples of
Scotland, Wales and Ireland, the organised band of the followers of the
Faith of Baha'u'llah throughout the British Isles, within sight of the
conclusion of the Final Phase of the Six Year Plan, stands on the
threshold of a door which when opened will disclose to the eyes of its
members a vista of vast dimensions, of majestic beauty, of infinite
promise.

Theirs is the unrivalled opportunity, should they bestir themselves, to
carry forward to a triumphant conclusion this first corporate effort to
which they have consecrated themselves and their nascent institutions, to
embark, in the course of subsequent Plans, on enterprises destined to
safeguard and consolidate, in all parts of the motherland, the
achievements so hardly won, to proclaim, unequivocally, systematically and
effectively, to the masses throughout the length and breadth of the
British Isles the verities enshrined in their Faith, to initiate the
establishment of a befitting National Haziratu'l-Quds in either the
capital of the United Kingdom or further north in the very heart of the
British Isles, to inaugurate national and local endowments, to incorporate
the newly constituted assemblies, to undertake the preliminary measures
for the erection of the first Ma_sh_riqu'l-A_dh_kar in the British Empire,
and to launch crusades designed to implant the banner of the Faith and lay
the structural basis of its Administrative Order throughout the
diversified, the numerous and widely scattered colonies of the British
Crown.

Not theirs, however, while the present tasks remain as yet unaccomplished,
to dwell upon, or even visualise, however dimly, the course which the
progress of their subsequent labours must assume in a world whose
stability is so lamentably shaken, and whose immediate future i