, and exhibiting, both at home and abroad,
evidences of a development that bids fair to eclipse any of its collective
achievements in the past five decades since its inception.

In both the teaching and administrative spheres of its ever-expanding,
swiftly unfolding activities, whether in the heart and capital city of the
Empire to which it belongs, or in the chief cities recently opened by its
pioneering members in the territories comprising its island home, or in
the diversified and far-flung dependencies of the British Crown in the
African Continent, this virile, forward marching, securely established
community has amply demonstrated its capacity to be regarded as one of the
chief strongholds of a divinely conceived Faith and one of the principal
bastions sustaining the fabric of Baha'u'llah's world-encompassing Order.

Standing as it does on the threshold of the second phase of a Crusade with
which its immediate destinies are inseparably linked, and to which it has
voluntarily and enthusiastically pledged its combined resources, the tasks
now confronting it demand a degree of concentration, dedication,
co-ordination, resourcefulness and perseverance hitherto unequalled in any
period of its career.

The prizes won in recent months, since the launching of the Ten Year Plan
to which it stands committed, through the strenuous exertions and the
shining example of its pioneers in the islands situated to the North, the
West and the South of its homeland, as well as in the far away territories
lying in the heart of the African Continent and situated on both its
eastern and western shores, must, however great the sacrifices involved,
be preserved. The acquisition of the national Haziratu'l-Quds in a
centrally located area in a city that ranks as the chief metropolis of a
vast Empire is yet another task of the utmost urgency and of the highest
significance, the consummation of which should be considered as the chief
objective and pre-eminent duty of this community's elected national
representatives, and one which is bound to exert, in the days immediately
ahead, a far-reaching and pervasive influence on the growth and unfoldment
of the Faith which it is their privilege to serve and promote.

Of no less importance is the responsibility to reinforce the structure of
the Administrative Order throughout the British Isles, and particularly in
the newly opened territories of Scotland, Wales, Eire and Northern
Ireland, through a r