apid and unprecedented increase in the number of the
avowed supporters of the Faith, and a multiplication of isolated centres,
groups and assemblies that constitute the warp and woof of the fabric of
its evolving Order.

A no less urgent task, which will directly reinforce this fabric, and
heighten the prestige of the Faith itself, and pave the way for the
establishment of Baha'i local endowments, is the prompt incorporation of
firmly established local assemblies, a process which, as soon as it is
initiated, must gather steady momentum throughout the length and breadth
of the British Isles, and be ultimately reinforced by the incorporation of
all local assemblies destined to be established in the virgin territories
recently opened in the neighbourhood of the British Isles and in the
African territories allotted to your Assembly under the provisions of the
Ten Year Plan.

Special attention should, moreover, be paid to the no less vital duty of
completing the translation, the publication and the dissemination of
Baha'i literature in the languages assigned to your Assembly, in
accordance with that same Plan, an achievement which will greatly
stimulate the work to be undertaken in the course of the future phases of
this world spiritual Crusade as it unfolds itself in the African
Continent.

Whilst these highly meritorious enterprises are being assiduously carried
on, the inescapable and sacred duty of consolidating the nine African
territories and the two additional ones in Europe and Asia must be
adequately discharged, in order to enable the British Baha'i community to
bring to full fruition the noble mission entrusted so confidently to its
care.

The tasks facing this community in the course of this second and future
phases of a world-encircling Crusade are admittedly vast, complex and
challenging. The resources at the disposal of its doggedly persevering,
wholly dedicated members are, alas, circumscribed and inadequate. The
Mission, however, to which its Founder is calling it, is unspeakably
glorious. Many and divers will, no doubt, be the tests, the setbacks and
trials which teachers and administrators alike within the ranks of its
members, must necessarily experience. The times, during which the opening
phase of its Mission overseas is to yield its fairest fruit, are fraught
with great peril. Both at home and in distant outposts of the Empire, the
opposition which those responsible for its development and consolida