directing the peoples of the West to leave their cities to
insure the triumph of the Divine Cause was recorded a century ago in the
Qayyumu'l-Asma. Baha'u'llah's significant summons calling upon all the
Presidents of the Republics of the western hemisphere to champion the
Cause of Justice was issued seventy years ago in His Most Holy Book. The
broad outlines of 'Abdu'l-Baha's matchless design, conceived twenty-five
years ago for the benefit of the North American believers, was transmitted
to posterity in the Tablets of the Divine Plan. The Seven Year Enterprise,
regarded as the initial stage in the execution of a World Mission, has
been already launched. The gigantic Temple undertaking, constituting the
major obligation of this enterprise, has been virtually consummated. The
vast Intercontinental Teaching Campaign is visibly yielding first fruits
in every Republic of Latin America. Upon the crucial year ahead hinge the
fortunes of this historic crusade. From Alaska to Chile, the Americas are
astir with the leavening influences of the rising Order of the newborn
Revelation. The great Republic of the West is inescapably swept into the
swelling tide of the world tribulations, presaging the assumption of a
preponderating share in the establishment of the anticipated Lesser Peace.
Invisible hosts are marshalled, eager to rush forth and crown every
effort, however humble, however belated, exerted to speed the unfinished
tasks. Again I renew plea for closer communion with the Spirit of
Baha'u'llah, for more passionate resolve, for more abundant flow of
material resources, and for wider dispersion, intenser concentration, by a
still greater number of pioneers, settlers and itinerant teachers to
insure for the Plan a termination commensurate with and wondrous as the
exploits marking the opening decade of first Baha'i Century. Myself
deprived of personal participation in the task allotted to the prosecutors
of the epoch-making Plan, I am impelled to deputize five members of the
American Baha'i community to help fulfill in my behalf whatsoever pioneer
field is most vital to its urgent requirements. Pledging five thousand
dollars for accomplishment of this purpose.

Cablegram April 26, 1942

THE SEVEN YEAR PLAN

Viewed in the perspective of Baha'i history, the Seven Year Plan,
associated with the closing years of the First Baha'i Century, will come
to be regarded as the mightiest instrument yet forged, designed to enabl