e expiry of the first Baha'i century,
should through resolute effort and careful planning, be continually and
speedily multiplied. Particular care should be constantly exercised to
enable the groups scattered throughout the length and breadth of the
states and provinces of the United States and Canada to attain Assembly
status, and assume gradually the responsibilities and functions assigned
to them in the Kitab-i-Aqdas and the Tablets of 'Abdu'l-Baha. A
corresponding increase in the number of such centers throughout both
Central and South America should likewise be aimed at. Bolder measures
designed to proclaim the verities of the Faith, its tenets, its claims and
the purpose of its institutions, through the press and radio, through
displays, exhibits and conferences, and through a wider dissemination of
its literature in English, Spanish and Portuguese, as well as a more
convincing presentation of its aims and teachings to the leaders of public
opinion, should, moreover, be seriously and systematically undertaken not
only in the mother country but also throughout the Latin Republics where
the structural basis of Baha'u'llah's embryonic Order has already been
established.

Collateral with this process of consolidation in North, Central and South
America, a special effort should be exerted to bring to a final conclusion
the construction of the most holy Temple which will ever be erected by the
followers of the Faith of Baha'u'llah, and whose inception, forty-three
years ago, synchronized with the erection in the city of I_sh_qabad of the
first Ma_sh_riqu'l-A_dh_kar of the Baha'i world. The completion of the
interior ornamentation of the Temple, following upon its exterior
decoration, and fitting it for the purposes for which it was ordained, and
coinciding with the fiftieth anniversary of its inception, will, in
itself, pave the way for the gradual erection of those Dependencies which
are designed to supplement the functions which the Central Edifice is
destined to perform, and whose future development must needs be provided
for during successive stages in the unfoldment of the Divine Plan itself.

Parallel with this double process of consolidation and construction
particular attention should be devoted to the provision of the necessary
means whereby the newly fledged centers in the Dominion of Canada and
throughout the Republics of Latin America can be coordinated and further
consolidated, through the formation of thre