cs of the Western
Hemisphere, whereas the duties prescribed in those Tablets call for a
wider diffusion, and imply the scattering of a far greater and more
representative number of the members of the North American Baha'i
community over the entire surface of the New World. It is the undoubted
mission of the American believers, therefore, to carry forward into the
second century the glorious work initiated in the closing years of the
first. Not until they have played their part in guiding the activities of
these isolated and newly fledged centers, and in fostering their capacity
to initiate in their turn institutions, both local and national, modeled
on their own, can they be satisfied to have adequately discharged their
immediate obligations under 'Abdu'l-Baha's divinely revealed Plan.

Nor should it for a moment be supposed that the completion of a task which
aims at the multiplication of Baha'i centers and the provision of the
assistance and guidance necessary for the establishment of the
Administrative Order of the Baha'i Faith in the countries of Latin America
realizes in its entirety the scheme visualized for them by 'Abdu'l-Baha. A
perusal, however perfunctory, of those Tablets embodying His Plan will
instantly reveal a scope for their activities that stretches far beyond
the confines of the Western Hemisphere. With their inter-American tasks
and responsibilities virtually discharged, their intercontinental mission
enters upon its most glorious and decisive phase. "The moment this Divine
Message," 'Abdu'l-Baha Himself has written, "is carried forward by the
American believers from the shores of America and is propagated through
the continents of Europe, of Asia, of Africa, and of Australasia, and as
far as the islands of the Pacific, this community will find itself
securely established upon the throne of an everlasting dominion."

And who knows but that when this colossal task has been accomplished a
greater, a still more superb mission, incomparable in its splendor, and
foreordained for them by Baha'u'llah, may not be thrust upon them? The
glories of such a mission are of such dazzling splendor, the circumstances
attending it so remote, and the contemporary events with the culmination
of which it is so closely knit in such a state of flux, that it would be
premature to attempt, at the present time, any accurate delineation of its
features. Suffice it to say that out of the turmoil and tribulations of
these "latte