he object of the solicitude and of the anxious deliberations
of the members of your Assembly. The remarkable success recently achieved,
through the multiplication of Baha'i assemblies, groups and isolated
centres, must be followed up by a corresponding increase in the number of
the avowed and active supporters of the Faith--the bedrock on which the
strength and stability of the entire community must rest. The preliminary
stages designed to launch the greatest enterprise confronting the German
Baha'i Community--the construction of the Mother Temple of Europe--must be
swiftly and energetically undertaken, particularly in connexion with the
ultimate settlement of the issue of the Temple site, and the provision of
the necessary authorization for the laying of its foundations and the
erection of its structure.

Another matter of vital importance, and destined to exert a lasting
influence on the immediate destinies of the German Baha'i Community, is
the adoption of the necessary measures for the introduction of the Faith
into neighbouring territories, such as the translation of Baha'i
literature into Russian and into the languages in use in the Baltic
states, and the exploration of every avenue designed to enable German
Baha'i pioneers to launch this vast, this historic and meritorious
campaign beyond the eastern confines of their native land.

The process of incorporating firmly established Baha'i local assemblies,
which has so far been regrettably slow, must be further stimulated, in
order to consolidate the legal foundations of the administrative structure
of the Faith in that land as well as in Austria.

The institution of the National Fund, whose fundamental importance cannot
be exaggerated, must receive a wider and fuller measure of support from
the rank and file of the believers, in order that it may be enabled to
provide more adequately than heretofore for the pressing material needs of
the infant institutions of the Faith, now faced with such tremendous and
inescapable responsibilities.

Particular attention must, moreover, be devoted to the vital and urgent
needs of the Faith in Austria, where a nascent community is heroically
struggling to establish its independent national Baha'i existence on a
secure foundation.

Constant encouragement, by whatever means possible, must, furthermore, be
given the suppressed and isolated local communities in Eastern Germany,
now so sadly detached from the general body of the fo