will
become very important in the future. The teachings, once established
there, will unite the East and the West, the North and the South." So
privileged a position surely demands the special and prompt attention of
the American Baha'i community. With the Republic of Mexico already opened
up to the Faith, and with a Spiritual Assembly properly constituted in its
capital city, the southward penetration of the Faith of Baha'u'llah into a
neighboring country is but a natural and logical step, and should, it is
to be hoped, prove to be not a difficult one. No efforts should be spared,
and no sacrifice be deemed too great, to establish even though it be a
very small group in a Republic occupying, both spiritually and
geographically, so strategic a position--a group which, in view of the
potency with which the words of 'Abdu'l-Baha have already endowed it,
cannot but draw to itself, as soon as it is formed, the outpouring grace
of the Abha Kingdom, and evolve with such marvelous swiftness as to excite
the wonder and the admiration of even those who have already witnessed
such stirring evidences of the force and power of the Faith of
Baha'u'llah. Preference, no doubt, should be given by all would-be
pioneers, as well as by the members of the Inter-America Committee, to the
spiritual needs of this privileged Republic, though every effort should,
at the same time, be exerted to introduce the Faith, however tentatively,
to the Republics of Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Costa
Rica which would link it, in an unbroken chain, with its mother Assemblies
in the North American continent. Obstacles, however formidable, should be
surmounted, the resources of the Baha'i treasury should be liberally
expended on its behalf, and the ablest and most precious exertions should
be consecrated to the cause of its awakening. The erection of yet another
outpost of the Faith, in its heart, will constitute, I firmly believe, a
landmark in the history of the Formative Period of the Faith of
Baha'u'llah in the New World. It will create limitless opportunities,
galvanize the efforts, and reinvigorate the life, of those who will have
accomplished this feat, and infuse immense courage and boundless joy into
the hearts of the isolated groups and individuals in the neighboring and
distant Republics, and exert intangible yet powerful spiritual influences
on the life and future development of its people.

"SUCH, DEARLY BELOVED FRIEND