and trials they will undergo,
His unfailing guidance will be vouchsafed to them in direct proportion to
the degree of their consecration to their task, and the perseverance, the
courage and fidelity they will display as they discharge their duties.

The remarkable success that has attended their high endeavours since the
initiation of their first collective enterprise within the confines of
their native land, the still more notable evidence of God's sustaining
grace that has accompanied the opening of the first stage of their Mission
overseas, are sufficient proof of the tremendous potency of the forces at
work for the purpose of ensuring the unrestricted expansion of their
future activities within and beyond the frontiers of their island home,
and the ultimate consummation of their magnificent enterprise.

In the months immediately ahead, the strongholds of the Faith erected, in
the form of local assemblies, and already established in Ireland,
Scotland, Wales and England, must be maintained at all costs in their
present strength; the groups and isolated centres already brought into
being must, under no circumstances, be allowed to decrease in number or be
lost to the Faith; the translation and publication of pamphlets in the
languages already selected must be vigorously pushed forward and
completed; the centre in the capital of Kenya must be assiduously
expanded; the preparations for the projected inter-continental Conference
must be carefully carried out; the effective participation of the
representatives of the British Baha'i community in the Stockholm
inter-continental Conference must be ensured; and all the preparatory
steps, required for the effectual collaboration of the members of this
community in the global crusade, destined to be launched on the morrow of
the world-wide celebrations of the approaching Holy Year, should, to
whatever extent possible, be undertaken.

There is no time to lose. The issues at stake call for immediate action,
demand unrelaxing vigilance, undivided attention, and a consecration
unexampled in the annals of the Faith in the British Isles. Though the
number of those summoned to shoulder so immense a task be dishearteningly
small, though the resources at their disposal be meagre, though the cares
and preoccupations of the peoples amidst whom they live are such as to
often blind them to the Faith and its healing message, yet the position
they occupy and the responsibilities devolving upo