Behold the portals which Baha'u'llah hath opened before you!
Consider how exalted and lofty is the station you are destined to attain;
how unique the favors with which you have been endowed." "My thoughts are
turned towards you, and my heart leaps within me at your mention. Could ye
know how my soul gloweth with your love, so great a happiness would flood
your hearts as to cause you to become enamored with each other." "The full
measure of your success is as yet unrevealed, its significance still
unapprehended. Erelong ye will, with your own eyes, witness how
brilliantly every one of you, even as a shining star, will radiate in the
firmament of your country the light of Divine Guidance, and will bestow
upon its people the glory of an everlasting life." "I fervently hope that
in the near future the whole earth may be stirred and shaken by the
results of your achievements." "The Almighty will no doubt grant you the
help of His grace, will invest you with the tokens of His might, and will
endue your souls with the sustaining power of His holy Spirit." "Be not
concerned with the smallness of your numbers, neither be oppressed by the
multitude of an unbelieving world.... Exert yourselves; your mission is
unspeakably glorious. Should success crown your enterprise, America will
assuredly evolve into a center from which waves of spiritual power will
emanate, and the throne of the Kingdom of God will, in the plenitude of
its majesty and glory, be firmly established."

It should be remembered that the carrying out of the Seven Year Plan
involves, insofar as the teaching work is concerned, no more than the
formation of at least one center in each of the Central and South American
Republics. The hundredth anniversary of the birth of the Faith of
Baha'u'llah should witness, if the Plan already launched is to meet with
success, the laying, in each of these countries, of a foundation, however
rudimentary, on which the rising generation of the American believers may,
in the opening years of the second century of the Baha'i era, be able to
build. Theirs will be the task, in the course of successive decades, to
extend and reinforce those foundations, and to supply the necessary
guidance, assistance, and encouragement that will enable the widely
scattered groups of believers in those countries to establish independent
and properly constituted local Assemblies, and thereby erect the framework
of the Administrative Order of their Faith. The e