ha'i world. This support, so generously extended, so consistently and
faithfully offered by the rank and file of the American believers, and
particularly by their elected National representatives, is but a
subsidiary aspect of the tremendous undertakings which, in both the North
and South American continents, the standard bearers of the Faith of
Baha'u'llah have initiated and developed, for the promotion of its
interests, during the concluding decades of the first Baha'i century.

The twofold task which they have so nobly undertaken--the proclamation of
the Faith in the North American continent and the consolidation of its
nascent institutions in Latin America--must, whatever plan is devised in
the coming years for the furtherance of their world-wide mission--be
relentlessly prosecuted. That further responsibilities, of a momentous
character, will have to be superimposed on the stalwart prosecutors of
'Abdu'l-Baha's Divine Plan, as they gird up their loins to carry a stage
further their historic labors in obedience to His wishes, no one can for a
moment doubt. As the field of their activities, ranging over entire
continents, grows in scope and in importance, the aims and purposes
associated with the first stage of their glorious mission must, in no
wise, be either neglected or forgotten. The steady multiplication of
groups and of Spiritual Assemblies throughout the States of the great
American Republic, the continual broadcasting of the Divine Message to the
leaders of public opinion and the masses, as well as the establishment of
the newly fledged local Assemblies throughout Latin America on an
unassailable basis, and the dissemination of Baha'i literature among its
people, demand whatever the nature of the supplementary responsibilities
that will have to be assumed in the years to come, the closest attention
on the part of the entire body of the American believers, and must
continue to be regarded as the fundamental issues facing their national
representatives. The exploits immortalizing the first stage of the Divine
Plan, however glorious their record, have yet to yield their noblest
fruits. Efforts unremitting, systematic, and continent-wide in their
scope, can alone garner a harvest worthy of the high confidence placed in
them by 'Abdu'l-Baha. May they prove themselves increasingly worthy of so
high a privilege, so glorious a task.

March 25, 1946

INAUGURATION OF SECOND SEVEN YEAR PLAN

Message to 194