Order are inexpressibly exhilarating and
infinitely meritorious. The immensity of the task still to be performed
staggers our fancy and inflames our imagination. The potentialities with
which these tasks are endowed elude our shrewdest calculations. The
promise they enshrine is too dazzling to contemplate. What else can we do
but bow our heads in thanksgiving and reverence, steel our hearts in
preparation for the strenuous days ahead, and intensify a hundredfold our
resolution to carry on the task to which our hands are set at present.

May 25, 1941

FATE-LADEN WORLD ORDEAL

The fate-laden world ordeal is moving in steady, pre-ordained crescendo.
The blaze of a seemingly uncontrollable fire is leaping, ravaging last
remaining great Power on European continent. Shadows of God's retributive
act are fast gathering. As the arena of world convulsing contest broadens;
as wounds it inflicts deepen; as issues it raises aggravate and multiply,
so will the operation of the spiritual forces, destined to cast the burden
of a travailing age, be accelerated. As the old world sinks beneath the
weight of a crumbling old order, so must new world exponents of
Baha'u'llah's nascent, integrating World Order climb loftier summits of
their sublime calling. I urgently, insistently plead that all American
believers, particularly the National Teaching and Inter-America
Committees, above all the National elected representatives, arm their
souls, labor more resolutely, cooperate more closely, scatter more widely,
sacrifice more abundantly, to insure, during remaining years of Seven Year
Plan, the brilliant discharge of the one remaining obligation of their
dual task, whose consummation must signalize the termination and seal the
triumph of First Baha'i Century.

Cablegram July 4, 1941

ELIZABETH GREENLEAF

Share deep grief of bereaved community at passing of Elizabeth Greenleaf,
beloved handmaid of Baha'u'llah. Her radiant spirit, staunch loyalty,
noble character, effective teaching method were distinguishing features of
her consecrated life. Praying abundant blessings in life beyond.

Cablegram August 7, 1941

UNCONQUERABLE POWER

As I survey the activities and accomplishments of the American believers
in recent months, and recall their reaction to the urgent call for
service, embodied in the Seven Year Plan, I feel overwhelmed by a
three-fold sense of gratitude and admiration which I feel prompted to
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