ses, and Baha'i Youth
Symposiums were inaugurated. A distributing center of Baha'i literature
for Latin America was established in the capital of Argentina, and the
outposts of the Faith, in the Western Hemisphere, were pushed as far north
as Anchorage in Alaska, in the vicinity of the Arctic Circle, and as far
as the extremity of Chile, to Magellanes, the world's southernmost city.

The second Seven Year Plan, set in motion on the morrow of that universal
and cataclysmic upheaval, must, despite the great confusion that still
prevails, the spiritual torpor, the disillusionment, the embitterment, the
political and social restlessness that still afflict the human race, meet,
as it gathers momentum and multiplies its agencies across the ocean, in
lands and amidst races that have borne, for the most part, the brunt of
this dire and bloody contest, with a success no less startling and
complete than that which rewarded the self-sacrifice, the vigilance and
the strenuous labors of those who inaugurated the initial phase of this
glorious Mission. Might not this second and still greater adventure,
undertaken by the trustees of a God-Given Mandate, demonstrate in both
hemispheres, despite the prodigious scale on which it is launched, such
prodigies of service as will carry its prosecutors far beyond their avowed
objectives, and eclipse, through the wisdom, the valor and the exploits of
those pioneers and administrators immediately responsible for its planning
and execution, the splendor of every previous collective enterprise
undertaken by the followers of Baha'u'llah in the West?

Let them as they gird up their loins, as they deliberate in their council
chambers, as they embark on their bold and holy mission, as they encounter
the hazards, and suffer the setbacks, and are confronted with the
formidable obstacles, which so vast, so complex, so arduous an enterprise
must necessarily involve, call to mind the illuminating, the comforting,
the sustaining words enshrined for all time in those epoch-making Tablets
wherein the unerring pen of their Master has traced the course of their
mission: "May America become the distributing center of spiritual
enlightenment, and all the world receive this heavenly blessing! For
America has developed powers and capacities greater and more wonderful
than other nations... May the inhabitants of this country ... rise from
their present material attainments to such a height that heavenly
illumination