ies of
several countries in the Eastern Hemisphere, this latest Edifice in the
chain of Baha'i national institutions linking five continents will, no
doubt, serve to enhance the growing prestige of a world-wide Faith and
consolidate the foundations of its administrative structure. From far-off
Sydney, on the shores of the South Pacific Ocean, and successively through
New Delhi in the heart of the Indian sub-continent, Tihran, the capital of
Baha'u'llah's native land, Ba_gh_dad, the Iraqi capital enshrining His
most holy House, Cairo, the Egyptian capital the admitted centre of both
the Arab and Muslim worlds, the city of Frankfurt in the heart of both
Germany and of the European continent, and as far as the heart of the
North American continent and in the neighbourhood of the first Baha'i
Centre established in the Western Hemisphere, this chain of Baha'i
bastions of a world-encircling Order, must be further extended through an
additional link to be forged in the northern part of the Western
Hemisphere, and its subsequent prolongation into Latin America as far as
the Republics of South America.

HAND OF THE CAUSE SUTHERLAND MAXWELL

One more word in conclusion. The passing, at this juncture, of one(26)
who, through a long career of distinguished service to the Cause of
Baha'u'llah, not only since the birth of this community but in more recent
years in the heart and centre of the Baha'i World, has left an indelible
mark on the annals of the Faith, has evoked not only the deepest sorrow
but the utmost regret at a time when this community is beginning to reap
at long last the first fruits of its stewardship to the Cause of God, and
the whole Baha'i World is on the eve of celebrating one of its greatest
Jubilees. By reason of his own saintly life, his self-effacement,
gentleness, loving kindness and nobility of soul; by virtue of his
remarkable endowments which he so devotedly consecrated to both the
embellishment of the slopes of God's holy mountain and the creation of a
befitting design for the second most holy Baha'i Edifice embosomed in its
very heart; and because of his kinship, on the one hand, with a wife(27)
whom posterity will regard, not only as the mother of both the Canadian
Baha'i Community and of the first Baha'i centre established on the
European continent but also as one of the foremost pioneers and martyrs of
the Faith and, on the other with a daughter(28), whose unfailing support
to me as my helpmate,