STILL MORE COMPELLING DISPLAY

The vigorous action promptly taken by your assembly to insure the success
of the forthcoming Centenary Celebrations is highly commendable, and
provides a fresh demonstration of the magnificent response made by the
American believers to every call demanding renewed exertion on their part
in the service of the Cause of Baha'u'llah. The progress recently achieved
in building up Spiritual Assemblies in the virgin areas of the North
American continent has been truly remarkable. To consummate so vast an
enterprise, however, a still more compelling display of the vitality of
the spirit animating the American Baha'i community is required, a still
greater concentration of effort is needed, an even more stirring evidence
of the daring boldness of its members is imperative. Whoever will arise,
in these concluding, fast-fleeting months of the last year of the first
Baha'i Century, to fill the remaining posts, and thereby set the seal of
total victory on a Plan so pregnant with promise, will earn the lasting
gratitude of the present generation of believers in both the East and the
West, will merit the acclaim of posterity, will be vouchsafed the special
benediction of the Concourse on High, and be made the recipient of the
imperishable bounties of Him Who is the Divine Author of the Plan itself.
Whoever will rush forth, at this eleventh hour, and cast his weight into
the scales, and contribute his decisive share to so gigantic, so sacred
and historic an undertaking, will have not only helped seal the triumph of
the Plan itself but will also have notably participated in the fulfillment
of what may be regarded as the crowning act of an entire century. The
opportunity that presents itself at this crucial hour is precious beyond
expression. The blessings destined to flow from a victory so near at hand
are rich beyond example. One final surge of that indomitable spirit that
has carried the American Baha'i community to such heights is all that is
required, as the first Baha'i century speeds to a close, to release the
flow of those blessings that must signalize the termination of the first,
and usher in the dawn of the second, Baha'i Century.

November 16, 1943

THE AUSPICIOUS YEAR

The auspicious year destined to witness the Centenary of the Birth of the
Faith of Baha'u'llah is brilliantly opening. The last year of the first
Baha'i Century is more than half spent. The tempo of organized, conce