East and West, enjoyed the greatest immunity
and been privileged not only to maintain and preserve its institutions,
but to prosecute so successfully a Plan of such magnitude and
significance, a special responsibility now rests--a responsibility which,
despite its manifold and pressing duties in the Western Hemisphere, it can
neither afford to neglect nor ignore.

Particularly in the heart of the European continent, where the present
turmoil, suffering and destitution are mysteriously paving the way for the
revival of a Faith which the Beloved Himself has unequivocally prophesied,
where a once flourishing community is struggling to fulfil the high hopes
entertained for it by Him, and where the prosecutors of the Divine Plan,
are to lend their direct and systematic assistance when launching the
second stage of their world mission, must the American believers
contribute the major share in the work of rehabilitation which the
followers of Baha'u'llah must arise to perform.

Through the extension of whatever financial assistance is feasible,
through the provision and distribution of adequate literature, through the
initiation of any measures, official or otherwise, which they can
undertake for the protection, reinstatement and revival of a
greatly-tested, highly promising and much loved community, the American
believers have the golden opportunity of adding a fresh chapter to the
brilliant record of their past international services to the Cause of God.

Nor should the urgency of the task in far-away Burma, where a flourishing
community had furnished so shining an example of Baha'i fellowship and
solidarity, be underestimated. The spirit which its remnant has displayed
after so many years of persecution, dispersion and danger, merits the
widest measure of encouragement and support, both moral and financial.
Pressed as the American Baha'i community must be by the twofold obligation
of proclaiming the verities of their Faith to the American public and of
consolidating the vast enterprises initiated throughout Latin America, the
stalwart and privileged followers of the Faith of Baha'u'llah in North
America cannot allow so great an opportunity to advance the vital
international interests of His Cause to slip from their grasp. I feel
confident that in the discharge of this additional task they will exhibit
those same traits that have distinguished their stewardship for so many
years to so glorious a Cause.

December 21, 1945