ng responsibility
with which the British Baha'i community, emerging triumphantly and in
rapid succession from the ordeal of a world war and the struggles involved
in the prosecution of an historic Plan, has been honoured at so critical
and challenging an hour in the fortunes of mankind.

To labour assiduously for the despatch, in the coming year marking the
official opening of the Two Year Plan, of pioneers to the chosen
Territories of the African Continent; to ensure that its three sister
National Assemblies will steadily reinforce its work through financial
assistance as well as through the increase in the number of pioneers; to
expedite the translation, publication and dissemination of Baha'i
literature in the three selected languages throughout these Territories;
to enlarge the scope of the contacts established with representatives of
the African peoples and with institutions designed to foster their
interests; to cultivate cordial relations with, and secure the goodwill
and support of, the civil authorities in the goal countries where the
pioneers will reside; to maintain steady correspondence with, fan the
zeal, seek the counsel and secure the assistance of the budding and
scattered communities in the North, the South and the Heart of that vast,
that promising and slowly awakening continent; to prepare for the eventual
convocation, under its own auspices and following the example set, and the
procedure adopted, by its sister American Assembly on the European
Continent, of the First African Teaching Conference, representative of
both the white and black races, constituting an epoch-making landmark in
the evolution of the Faith among the African races and possibly
synchronising with the centenary celebrations of the birth of
Baha'u'llah's Mission, and adding another victor's crown to the laurels
already won by the British followers of the Faith of Baha'u'llah in their
own homeland--these stand out as the paramount and inescapable duties
confronting the British National Spiritual Assembly as it stands on the
threshold of a new and glorious epoch in British Baha'i history.

Though the prospect of this new venture is indeed enthralling, though it
demands careful planning, the allocation of substantial sums for its
prosecution, and the exertion of strenuous efforts for its systematic
development, the prizes so laboriously won at home must under no
circumstances be jeopardised. The twofold obligation of preserving the
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