sion of teaching
enterprises East and West, the multiplication of Baha'i endowments,
national and international, the consolidation of administrative
institutions, above all the superb evidences of incorruptible loyalty to
'Abdu'l-Baha and His Will, equally proclaim the unyielding determination
of the world community to seal with triumph the first Baha'i Century.

January 16, 1944

PARTICIPATION OF LATIN AMERICAN BELIEVERS

The participation of Latin American believers in the Baha'i Centennial
Convention is vital to the future development of the Faith in the
Americas. I urge individuals as well as the National Assembly to extend
assistance, financial and otherwise, to enable as many representatives as
possible to join the North American believers in the proceedings of a
gathering of such momentous importance and historic significance in the
evolution of the Faith of Baha'u'llah in the western hemisphere.

January 29, 1944

BEFITTINGLY CONSUMMATE THE ENTERPRISES

The brilliant achievements of the heroic pioneers, the itinerant teachers,
the indefatigable administrators of Baha'i teaching activities whether
local, regional or national, set the seal of total victory on the Seven
Year Plan, befittingly consummate the fifty year long enterprises
undertaken by the American Baha'i Century. My heart is filled with joy,
love, pride and gratitude at the contemplation of the stupendous shining
deeds immortalizing the valiant prosecutors of the greatest collective
enterprise ever launched in the course of the history of the Faith of
Baha'u'llah.

April 2, 1944

TURNING POINT IN BAHA'I HISTORY

The one remaining and indeed the most challenging task confronting the
American Baha'i Community has at long last been brilliantly accomplished.
The structural basis of the Administrative Order of the Faith of
Baha'u'llah has, through this superb victory, and on the very eve of the
world-wide celebrations of the Centenary of His Faith, been firmly laid by
the champion-builders of His World Order in every state of the Great
Republic of the West and in every Province of the Dominion of Canada. In
each of the Republics of Central and South America, moreover, the banner
of His undefeatable Faith has been implanted by the members of that same
community, while in no less than thirteen Republics of Latin America as
well as in two Dependencies in the West Indies, Spiritual Assemblies have
been established and a