fertile soil of a
Divinely appointed Administrative Order, and energized by the dynamic
processes of its institutions, yield its richest and destined fruit. That
the community of the American believers, to whose keeping so vast, so
delicate and precious a trust has been committed will, severally and
collectively prove themselves worthy of their high calling, I for one, who
in my association with them have been privileged to observe more closely
than perhaps any one else the nature of their reactions to the momentous
issues that have confronted them in the past, will refuse to doubt.

September 10, 1938

LOYALTY TO WORLD ORDER OF BAHA'U'LLAH

Loyalty to world order of Baha'u'llah, security of its basic institutions,
both imperatively demand all its avowed supporters, particularly its
champion builders of the American continent, in these days when sinister,
uncontrollable forces are deepening the cleavage sundering peoples,
nations, creeds, and classes, resolve despite pressure of fast
crystallizing public opinion, abstain individually, collectively in word,
action, informally as well as in all official utterances and publications
from assigning blame, taking sides, however indirectly, in recurring
political crises now agitating, ultimately engulfing human society. Grave
apprehension lest cumulative effect of such compromises disintegrate
fabric, clog channel of grace that sustains system of God's essentially
supra-national, supernatural order so laboriously evolved, so recently
established.

Cablegram September 24, 1938

NINE HOLY SOULS

Recent swift progress of Temple ornamentation prompts me entreat American
Community to focus immediate attention and center energies upon
corresponding acceleration in the Teaching enterprise formulated in Seven
Year Plan. Final phase in construction of Ma_sh_riqu'l-A_dh_kar already
entered. Initial stage in the inaugurated Teaching Campaign still
untraversed. End of First Century rapidly approaching. Alaska, Delaware,
Nevada, South Carolina, Utah, Vermont, West Virginia, Manitoba and Nova
Scotia still unsettled. Universal, prolonged intensification in pioneer
activity is the crying need of this fateful hour. The establishment of one
resident believer in each virgin territory is the precondition to the full
launching of the subsequent, eagerly-anticipated stage aiming at the
spiritual conquest of the Southern Half of the Western Hemisphere. The
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