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activities of the members of the worldwide Baha'i community is
correspondingly accelerating. Teaching campaigns, enterprises of
institutional significance, publicity measures, publication projects, and
celebration plans are rapidly multiplying. Inter-community competition is
steadily mounting. The world-desolating conflict, now in its fifth year,
is powerless to cloud the splendid prospect of the triumphant termination
of the first, most shining century of the Baha'i Era. Tihran reports
thirty-four Assemblies constituted, fifty-four groups reinforced,
fifty-eight new centers established. Messages from Delhi indicate that
Baha'is have established residence in over sixty localities in India and
eighteen Assemblies are already functioning. To the National Baha'i
Headquarters previously founded in Tihran, Wilmette and Ba_gh_dad, are now
added similar centers in Cairo, Delhi and Sydney, officially registered in
the names of their respective National Assemblies, and representing an
addition to Baha'i national endowments amounting to approximately eighteen
thousand pounds. The Baha'i international endowments have been further
enriched by a recent acquisition on Mount Carmel in the vicinity of the
Bab's Shrine transferred to the name of the Palestine Branch of the
American National Assembly. Twenty-five acres of land situated in the
Jordan Valley have just been dedicated to the Tomb of Baha'u'llah. The
recent acquisition of land adjacent to the site of the projected Tihran
Temple raises the holding to over three and a half million square meters.
The Seven Year Plan, providing the chief impulse to the extraordinary
expansion of these magnificent activities, must, during the remaining five
months, as befitting thanksgiving act for continued outpouring of God's
unfailing grace, surge ahead to dazzling victory surpassing our highest
expectations. The prosecution of the Plan, whose scope transcends every
other enterprise launched by Baha'i communities throughout the whole
century, must, ere the hundred years run out, culminate in one last,
supreme effort whose repercussions will resound throughout the Baha'i
world.

January 4, 1944

ADDITION TO ENDOWMENTS

Since the transmission of my recent message conveying news of the
magnificent progress achieved by Baha'i communities, a substantial
addition to the endowments dedicated to the Shrines raises the holdings in
the Jordan Valley to over five hundred acres. The exten