e whose acts shed imperishable lustre on
American Baha'i community. Impelled share with National Assembly expenses
of erection of monument in symbolic spot,(2) the meeting-place of East and
West, to both of which she unsparingly dedicated the full force of her
mighty energies.

Cablegram October 3, 1939

MANDATE CONFERRED BY 'ABDU'L-BAHA

Weighty resolutions of San Francisco meeting call forth emotions too deep
for expression. Fondest hopes excelled. Indomitable courage and
overflowing energy of the firmly-welded, providentially-directed American
Baha'i community impelling them outstrip pace and surpass the limits of
the theatre of action assigned to the third year of the Seven Year Plan.
Welcome particularly recent action designed expedite termination of
Divinely-founded Temple ordained to be the Ark destined to ride triumphant
the tidal wave of world-encircling calamities and offering sole refuge to
storm-tossed sufferers of sinful, steadily sinking civilization. Kindly
renew to every established and intending pioneer in enumerated Republics
and dependencies my ardent plea to resolve to refuse, despite the
deepening world confusion, to abandon their posts and surrender the
responsibilities solemnly assumed under the Mandate conferred by
'Abdu'l-Baha.

Cablegram October 23, 1939

THE SPIRITUAL POTENCIES OF THAT CONSECRATED SPOT

The transfer of the sacred remains of the brother and mother of our Lord
and Master 'Abdu'l-Baha to Mount Carmel and their final interment within
the hallowed precincts of the Shrine of the Bab, and in the immediate
neighborhood of the resting place of the Greatest Holy Leaf, constitute,
apart from their historic associations and the tender sentiments they
arouse, events of such capital institutional significance as only future
happenings, steadily and mysteriously unfolding at the world center of our
Faith, can adequately demonstrate.

The circumstances attending the consummation of this long, this profoundly
cherished hope were no less significant. The swiftness and suddenness with
which so delicate and weighty an undertaking was conducted; the
surmounting of various obstacles which the outbreak of war and its
inevitable repercussions necessarily engendered; the success of the
long-drawn out negotiations which the solution of certain preliminary
problems imposed; the execution of the plan in the face of the continued
instability and persistent dangers following the