rection of such a
framework is primarily the responsibility of those whom the community of
the North American believers have converted to the Divine Message. It is a
task which must involve, apart from the immediate obligation of enabling
every group to evolve into a local Assembly, the setting up of the entire
machinery of the Administrative Order in conformity with the spiritual and
administrative principles governing the life and activities of every
established Baha'i community throughout the world. No departure from these
cardinal and clearly enunciated principles, embodied and preserved in
Baha'i national and local constitutions, common to all Baha'i communities,
can under any circumstances be tolerated. This, however, is a task that
concerns those who, at a later period, must arise to further a work which,
to all intents and purposes, has not yet been effectively started.

To pave the way, in a more systematic manner, for the laying of the
necessary foundation on which such permanent national and local
institutions can be reared and securely established is a task that will
very soon demand the concentrated attention of the prosecutors of the
Seven Year Plan. No sooner has their immediate obligation in connection
with the opening up of the few remaining territories in the United States
and Canada been discharged, than a carefully laid-out plan should be
conceived, aiming at the establishment of such a foundation. As already
stated, the provision for these vast, preliminary undertakings, the scope
of which must embrace the entire area occupied by the Central and South
American Republics, constitutes the very core, and must ultimately decide
the fate, of the teaching campaign conducted under the Seven Year Plan.
Upon this campaign must depend not only the effectual discharge of the
solemn obligations undertaken in connection with the present Plan, but
also the progressive unfoldment of the subsequent stages essential to the
realization of 'Abdu'l-Baha's vision of the part the American believers
are to play in the worldwide propagation of their Cause.

These undertakings, preliminary as they are to the strenuous and organized
labors by which future generations of believers in the Latin countries
must distinguish themselves, require, in turn, without a moment's delay,
on the part of the National Spiritual Assembly and of both the National
Teaching and Inter-America Committees, painstaking investigations
preparatory to