ntroduction of the Faith into all the Sovereign States, the Chief
Dependencies and Islands of the entire planet.

In the conduct of this world-encompassing task, so vast in scope, so
thrilling in its possibilities, so formidable in its potentialities, the
British Baha'i community will be called upon to play a preponderating
role, in conjunction with the American Baha'i community, acting as the
Chief Custodians of 'Abdu'l-Baha's Master Plan, and seconded by its sister
communities in the British Dominions in both hemispheres, in awakening the
peoples, races and nations comprising the British Commonwealth and Empire
to the redemptive Message of Baha'u'llah, and in establishing, on an
unassailable foundation, the structural basis of His World Order.

The diversity of functions which the assumption of this task will involve;
the privileges and bounties it will, of a certainty, confer on its
prosecutors; the degree of dedication, the amount of preparation it will
require for its proper discharge; the severe strain it must necessarily
impose on all those who will shoulder its burdens; the gravity of the
manifold problems it will raise; the severe challenge with which they who
will arise to carry it out will be confronted--as witnessed by the delicate
and complicated situation that has already arisen in the initial stage of
this historic Mission in the heart of Africa, in connection with the
holding of the projected inter-continental conference--all these must be
carefully pondered in preparation for the launching, at its appointed
time, of an undertaking that will constitute, not only a milestone of the
utmost significance in the history of the Faith in the British Isles, but
will also be hailed by posterity as a landmark of peculiar significance in
British history.

Whilst the small band of wholly dedicated, patiently labouring, much
admired, greatly promising followers and supporters of the Faith, in
England, Wales, Ireland and Scotland, contemplate, from their respective
homelands, the grandeur of their future task, dwell on its sacred
character, and meditate on the wide range of its problems, possibilities,
perils and glories, let them devote particular and sustained attention to
the imperative needs, the urgent requirements of their no less important
and vital mission at home, in their boroughs and counties, amidst their
own people, and strain every nerve to reinforce, through a rapid increase
in their numbers, through a