sles,
into the Chief Dependencies of the British Crown scattered throughout the
European and Asiatic continents and the islands and archipelagos of the
Seven Seas.

The entire community, now firmly entrenched within the Administrative
strongholds, recently and so laboriously established in England, Wales,
Scotland and Ireland, must rise as one man to the occasion that now
presents itself. With hearts brimming with the love of Baha'u'llah, with
souls entirely dedicated to His Cause, with minds attuned to the laws and
precepts underlying His teachings, steeled with an inflexible
determination to utilise, to the fullest extent, the administrative
agencies which their hands have fashioned since the passing of
'Abdu'l-Baha, and deriving fresh hope and sustenance from the rapid and
remarkable victories won in both the teaching and administrative spheres
of Baha'i activity, both at home and abroad, the members of this
high-minded, tenacious and spiritually alive community must gird up their
loins, intensify their efforts a hundredfold and, through their combined
and sustained efforts, write yet another chapter in British Baha'i history
that will illuminate the annals of the Faith of Baha'u'llah and eclipse
the splendour of the feats already accomplished in the past fifty years by
the adherents of His Cause in their native land.

The twofold process, already set in motion, which has been attended by
such conspicuous success, must, in the course of the coming decade, be not
only fully maintained but steadily accelerated. While the structure of the
Administrative Order of the Faith within the British Isles is being
steadily reinforced and enlarged, through the multiplication of the
administrative institutions of the Faith in England, Scotland, Wales and
Ireland and the consolidation of the newly-fledged assemblies already
established, an effort, unprecedented in scope and intensity, must be
continually and determinedly exerted to lay the administrative basis of
this Order not only in the islands bordering the British Isles, but in the
Dependencies of the British Crown in the Mediterranean, and in the African
and Asiatic Continents.

This vital aspect of the Mission committed to the care of the British
Baha'i community, must, in the course of the Crusade upon which it has
embarked, receive a tremendous impetus, and gather such momentum as to
justify the trust 'Abdu'l-Baha so confidently placed in this community and
the distinct