the Manifestation and the
Center of His Covenant, demonstrating the pitiful futility of their
nefarious activities and the sad fate overtaking defectors and betrayers.

The present hour calls for unrelaxing vigilance, continued heroism,
redoubled efforts, renewed dedication by rank and file of the community
enjoying preponderating share alike in the erection, the defense, and the
consolidation of the worldwide Administrative Order of the Faith of
Baha'u'llah since the passing of the Center of His Covenant.

I urge the entire Baha'i community of the Western Hemisphere to focus its
attention during the remaining months of the opening year of the second
century on the formation of local Assemblies in the remaining Republics of
Nicaragua, Panama, Venezuela, Bolivia and San Domingo, guard against
dissolution of Assemblies already painstakingly established throughout the
Americas, exert effort on further multiplication of groups, wider
dissemination of literature, greater use of radio, closer contact with
masses, more audacious proclamation of the Faith, more effective
coordination of local and national activities aiming at fuller
demonstration of the rights and claims of the Faith to be regarded as sole
refuge of humanity in its hour of bitterest agony.

The American believers' meritorious activities, individual, local,
interstate, intercontinental, will be the object of my special prayers
during the approaching Anniversary of 'Abdu'l-Baha's Ascension.

Cablegram November 21, 1944

THE SUCCEEDING STAGE IN THE EVOLUTION OF THEIR WORLD MISSION

1944, a year memorable for the sharp contrast between the rising tide of
spiritual victories culminating in the Centenary celebrations of a
world-embracing Faith and the swiftly ebbing fortunes of a war-ravaged,
disillusioned and bankrupt society, is drawing to a close. In every
continent of the globe; in the Holy Land, the Heart and Center of our
Faith and Pivot of its institutions; in the land of its birth; in the
adjoining territory of 'Iraq; throughout the Western Hemisphere; in the
British Isles, so severely subjected to the violence of a world tempest;
throughout the length and breadth of India; in far-off Australasia and in
the Nile Valley--all with the sole exception of the distant Republics of
the West subjected in varying degrees to the imminent danger of becoming
the theatre of war--the communities laboring for the promotion of the Faith
of Baha'u'llah have, th