sembly, are matters of such
urgency as to be given precedence, during the coming two years, over all
the other objectives of the Ten Year Plan.

The Plan on which the British Baha'i community has embarked, unique in its
significance, unprecedented in its scope, so vast in its potentialities,
so meritorious in its objectives, so challenging in its features, will, if
consummated, at the appointed time, open a further vista, before the eyes
of its victorious prosecutors, of such transcendent glory as none of them
can as yet even dimly imagine. The path leading to the discovery of this
brilliant yet at present distant goal, at which a triumphant community
will be enabled to catch a glimpse of its ultimate destiny, revealed in
the plenitude of its splendour, is long, steep and thorny. The prizes to
be won by those who must tread this path, in the years immediately ahead,
are not to be easily secured. The challenge will be prolonged and severe.
The opportunities they now have to scale loftier heights of heroism, and
achieve still mightier victories during the interval separating the Great
and Most Great Jubilees, will if missed never again recur.

He Who, in His infinite love and mercy, called into being this community,
more than fifty years ago, at the time of the inception of His Father's
Faith in the West, Who tenderly and vigilantly nursed it and guided its
footsteps in the early years of its infancy, Who twice conferred upon it
the inestimable blessings of personal contact with its members, Who
sustained, from His station on high, its development in the course of no
less than two decades, within the framework of a rising Administrative
Order, Who enabled it to expand and consolidate itself within its island
home, Who launched it, subsequently, on its mission overseas, will, if its
members prove themselves worthy of His trust, continue to shower His
manifold blessings upon them, at this hour of their greatest need, and
will enable them to traverse, speedily and successfully, the second and
momentous stage in the progressive unfoldment of that same Mission.

That they may, guided and assisted by the vigilance, the wisdom and
devotion of their elected national representatives, forge ahead with
undiminished vigour, with exemplary fidelity, and with inflexible
determination, along the path of their high destiny, overcome every
obstacle that stands in their way, achieve signal success in the course of
the opening phase of thi