l, however, normal conditions are fully restored and the world
situation is stabilized, and, above all, the prizes won through the
operation of the Seven Year Plan are adequately safeguarded and the basis
of the newly established Administrative Order sufficiently consolidated
throughout the Western Hemisphere, can the ambassadors of the Faith of
Baha'u'llah, carrying aloft the banner of His Name in the American
continent, be called upon to undertake unitedly and systematically,
collective responsibility for the diffusion of His Message, and for the
erection of the fabric of His Administrative Order, amidst the
sorrow-stricken, war-lacerated, sorely bewildered nations and peoples of
the European continent.

The sooner the home tasks are fully discharged and newly fledged
Assemblies in Central and South America enabled to function adequately and
vigorously, the sooner will the stalwart members of the American Baha'i
community, who, during so brief a period, and despite the prevailing
darkness, achieved such wonders throughout the Americas, extend the
healing influence of their Faith, on a scale as yet unprecedented, to the
waiting masses of that agitated continent.

As already observed, an intensification of effort is imperatively required
aiming at a bolder proclamation of the verities of a God-given Faith, at a
systematic and continent-wide dissemination of its authentic literature,
at a closer contact with the masses as well as the leaders of public
thought, at a further consolidation and multiplication of the
administrative centers scattered throughout the new world, and
constituting the nuclei of its future World Order, and, above all, at a
more convincing revelation of Baha'i love, unity, solidarity and
self-sacrifice, which alone can hasten the consummation of the preliminary
undertakings required to terminate the period of transition intervening
between the first and second stages of the greatest crusade ever launched
in the history of the Faith of Baha'u'llah.

Time is pressing, the work that still remains to be accomplished in the
new world is vast and urgent, the need of the suffering masses the world
over, and particularly in Europe, is pitiable, the sustaining grace
destined to be vouchsafed from on high to those who will arise to achieve
that task and fulfill this need is boundless and assured. Its potency has
been already fully experienced, and abundantly demonstrated in the years
that have witnessed the