ibilities shouldered by the members of this
community are manifold, pressing, sacred and inescapable. The eyes of the
entire Baha'i world are upon them, eager and expectant to witness feats as
superb as those that have marked the birth and establishment of the
Administrative Order of the Faith of Baha'u'llah in the British Isles, and
exploits as meritorious and significant as those that have accompanied the
inception and progress of the mission entrusted to His British followers,
on the morrow of the emergence of that Administrative Order in their
homeland.

The process aiming at the rapid increase in the number of the avowed and
active supporters of the Faith must continue unabated in the months
immediately ahead. A simultaneous multiplication in the number of isolated
centres, groups and local assemblies must be ensured in order to reinforce
the agencies on which the rising administrative structure of the Faith
must ultimately rest. The process of incorporation must likewise be
strenuously stimulated for the purpose of strengthening legally, and
enhancing the prestige of, these rising institutions. The newly opened
territories forming part of the British Isles, situated in the
Mediterranean, in the Atlantic Ocean, along the western and eastern coasts
of Africa, and in its very heart, must be continually reinforced, and the
prizes won in those distant fields safeguarded, however great the
sacrifice involved. The establishment of national Baha'i endowments in the
British Isles is yet another task which, ere the termination of the
current year, must be accomplished, as a prelude to the establishment of a
similar endowment in the continent of Africa following the emergence of
the National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of Central and East Africa.

Above all, the most careful consideration should be given to the measures
required to ensure the emergence of the afore-mentioned National Assembly
in the heart of the African continent, marking the culmination of the
efforts so diligently exerted, and the fruition of the enterprises so
painstakingly inaugurated, since the formation of the Two Year Plan by the
British Baha'i community.

The emergence of this institution, signalising the erection of yet another
pillar of the Universal House of Justice in the African continent, and
constituting the first fruit, yielded on foreign soil, of the Mission
entrusted to the British followers of the Faith of Baha'u'llah, and which
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