cannot regard this resurgence of the Baha'i
spirit, this manifestation of Baha'i solidarity, these ennobling evidences
of Baha'i achievement, amidst so conservative a people, within so short a
time, under such trying circumstances, and by so small a band of workers,
except with feelings compounded of envy, of admiration and respect. Its
sister-communities throughout the East, venerable by reason of their age,
and the sacrifices they have made, and fully aware of the long period of
incubation this community has undergone, recall, with feelings of delight,
'Abdu'l-Baha's prediction, forecasting the germination, at their appointed
time, of the potent seeds His loving hands have sown in the course of His
twice-repeated visit to that Island, and marvel at the rapidity with which
its soil is now manifesting the potentialities with which it has been
endowed. He Who blessed it with His footsteps, Who called into being, and
fostered the growth of, the community labouring in that Island, hails,
from His station on high, the exploits which immortalise the small band of
His present-day consecrated and resolute followers, who are carrying on
the torch which He Himself had entrusted to their immediate predecessors.
Baha'u'llah Himself lauds the conspicuous victories being won in His Name,
in the dawning years of the Second Baha'i Century, at the very heart and
centre of the greatest Empire the world has ever seen, whose Sovereign
Monarch He Himself had addressed and whose deeds He, with His Own pen, had
commended.

The one remaining year, ere the present Plan of this blessed, this radiant
and spiritually potent community, is scheduled to draw to a close, cannot,
must not, be allowed to jeopardise the prizes so painstakingly won during
five memorable years of British Baha'i history. The newly-enrolled
believers, on whom the mantle of the first generation of 'Abdu'l-Baha's
British disciples has now fallen, and are now summoned to participate in a
Plan, whose scope and potency their predecessors could have never
visualised and whose initial success must thrill and rejoice their souls
in the Abha Kingdom, have a distinct, a sacred, a peculiar and urgent
responsibility to discharge in ensuring the consummation of this mighty
enterprise. Through active and constant participation with their veteran
co-workers, in filling swiftly the still remaining gaps in the pattern of
the Plan, now in its concluding stage; in displaying systematic and
sus