ertake prompt
measures designed to increase the number of believers, establish local
administrative headquarters, and multiply the subsidiary agencies
indispensable to the maintenance of a flourishing community in the
southern extremity of the western hemisphere. Praying ever increasing
successes.

Cablegram April 21, 1945

NATIONWIDE, INTERCONTINENTAL PLANS

Assure newly-elected members of my fervent prayers for divine guidance and
strength to accomplish the tasks confronting the American Baha'i community
in the second year of the second Baha'i century. I appeal to National
Teaching, Regional and Inter-America Committees to intensify efforts for
multiplication of groups and Assemblies the length and breadth of the
western hemisphere. An ever-increasing flow of pioneers is indispensable
to meet the urgent requirements of the present hour. Renewed, determined,
continued exertions by individuals aimed at an unprecedented increase in
the number of enrolled believers is vital to the consolidation of
activities undertaken by pioneers. Systematic, well-conceived, carefully
coordinated plans, nationwide and intercontinental, devised by elected
national representatives of the community, are likewise a necessary
preliminary to a seed-sowing unexampled both in range and effectiveness in
American Baha'i history. The attainment of this threefold objective in
North, Central and South America will signalize the initiation, in other
continents, of the world mission constituting the sacred birthright of the
American followers of the Faith of Baha'u'llah.

Cablegram May 8, 1945

A SINGLE, ORGANICALLY-UNITED WORLD COMMONWEALTH

The followers of Baha'u'llah throughout five continents unanimously
rejoice in the partial emergence of a war-torn humanity from the titanic
upheaval unerringly predicted seventy years ago by the Pen of the Author
of their Faith. The cessation of hostilities in the European continent
signalizes yet another chapter in the tragic tale of fiery trials
providentially decreed by inscrutable wisdom designed ultimately to weld
the mutually antagonistic elements of human society into a single,
organically-united, unshatterable world commonwealth. They gratefully
acclaim the signal evidence of the interposition of divine Providence
which during such perilous years enabled the World Center of our Faith to
escape what posterity will recognize as one of the gravest dangers which
ever confronted the