nd world-wide significance, a substantial measure of
assistance from the world centre of the Faith and the various National
Assemblies throughout the Baha'i world.

As soon as the site of the projected House of Worship is selected, either
within or in the immediate vicinity of the City of Frankfurt, which, owing
to the establishment of the Haziratu'l-Quds within its confines, has come
to be regarded as the national Baha'i Administrative Headquarters of your
Assembly,--an area that need not, for the present, exceed one or two
acres--steps will be taken by myself as well as by your sister-Assemblies
in both Hemispheres to aid you in this historic fate-laden enterprise
which will enable the continent of Europe, the third in the Baha'i world,
to boast of having raised in its very heart, its own Baha'i House of
Worship and which will, God willing, through its termination, at the
appointed hour, contribute an outstanding share to the projected
festivities which are to commemorate the centenary of the Declaration of
the Mission of the Founder of our Faith.

Second in importance and no less urgent a task is the opening, ere the
close of the current year, of the three virgin territories assigned to
your Assembly, through the despatch of at least one pioneer...

While these primary and urgent tasks are being diligently prosecuted, the
utmost effort should be exerted to stimulate the all-important process of
multiplying and consolidating the newly-established assemblies, groups and
isolated centres in both Germany and Austria as the essential
pre-requisite to the early formation of independent National Assemblies in
both countries occupying so central a position in the European continent,
and destined to play so vital a part in the promotion of the interests of
the Faith in the heart and in the eastern as well as the southern regions
of that continent.

The responsibilities devolving upon these two communities, in the course
of the coming ten years are enormous, pressing, sacred and inescapable.
The Plan committed to their care will inaugurate a new and glorious stage
in the unfoldment of their historic Mission--a stage that will enable them
to carry, for the first time in their history and in a systematic manner,
the banner of Baha'u'llah beyond the confines of their homelands.

Every sacrifice should be made, and all agencies, local, regional and
national, must energetically, whole-heartedly, and steadfastly
participate, to