heir range
and significance, must throw into shade the feats performed in the African
Continent.

To be enabled to rise to this occasion, to ensure the energetic, the
systematic and uninterrupted conduct of so vast and diversified an
enterprise, amidst peoples and races fully as promising, and even more
remotedly situated, and presenting them with a challenge more severe than
any which has faced them in the past, the small band of the ardent, the
high minded, the resolute followers of the Faith of Baha'u'llah, charged
by Destiny and by virtue of the enviable position they occupy, with so
glorious a responsibility for the future awakening of the great masses,
living under the shadow of, or whose governments are directly associated
with, the British Crown, must needs in the years immediately ahead,
acquire greater coherence, increase more rapidly in numbers, definitely
emerge from obscurity, plumb greater depths of consecration, enrich its
store of administrative experience, become definitely self-supporting, and
associate itself more closely, through the body of its elected
representatives and its future Hands, with the National and Regional
Spiritual Assemblies on the European mainland and in all the other
continents of the globe, and particularly with the Hands already appointed
in both the Eastern and Western Hemispheres.

The sooner these prime requisites, so essential for a further unfoldment
of the mighty potentialities inherent in so splendid a Mission, are
fulfilled, the sooner will the call be raised for the opening of a new
chapter in the history of British Baha'i achievements overseas.

The rapid multiplication of isolated centres, groups and local assemblies,
particularly in Scotland, Northern Ireland, Wales and Eire; the
incorporation of firmly grounded local spiritual assemblies; a greater
measure of publicity; a wider dissemination of Baha'i literature; a quick
and substantial rehabilitation of the vitally important national Fund; a
firmer grasp of the essential verities of the Faith; a more profound study
of its history and a deeper understanding of the genesis, the
significance, the workings, and the present status and achievements of its
embryonic World Order and of the Covenant to which it owes its birth and
vitality--these remain the rock-bottom requirements which alone can
guarantee the opening and hasten the advent, of that blissful era which
every British Baha'i heart so eagerly anticipates, and