nobly, so
enthusiastically and so energetically initiated by the upholders of the
Faith throughout the sub-continent of India and Burma.

The reverses they have suffered, with their attendant disappointments,
confusion and relaxation of effort, must never be allowed, however short
the period remaining before the termination of their Plan, to jeopardize
the chance of a success which is still in their power to achieve. They
must close their ranks, gird up their loins, rededicate their souls and
spirits to the unfinished tasks which face them, purge themselves of every
taint of communal prejudice, detach themselves from every thought of
self-interest, and arise, while there is yet time, to attain the goals
they have pledged themselves to attain.

The final phase of the Plan with which they stand identified, and on which
their immediate destiny depends, coincides with the hundredth anniversary
of the most bloody, tragic and turbulent period in the history of their
Faith--a period immortalised by the noblest evidences of Baha'i
self-sacrifice, marked by acts of sublime heroism, and ennobled by a
spirit of dedication and determination unsurpassed at any subsequent stage
in Baha'i history. Now, if ever, is the time to emulate the example of
these heroes, saints and martyrs. Now is the time to pour out one's
substance as copiously and as readily, as the Dawn-breakers of the Heroic
Age of the Faith have shed their life-blood in the path of this most
precious Cause. No more befitting tribute can be paid to the memory of
these luminous souls, by those who carry the torch of Divine Guidance
after them, than by a corresponding

manifestation of solidarity, self-abnegation, zeal and devotion, which
will impel them to forsake their homes, sacrifice their treasure, brave
every danger, endure every hardship, expend every ounce of energy, that
the Plan which they have spontaneously and unitedly sponsored may, through
its triumphant termination, carry them a stage further along the broad
highway of their destiny.

The multiplication of Baha'i Assemblies, at any cost and with the utmost
speed; the reconstitution of dissolved Assemblies, however great the
effort required; the completion of the translation into, and the printing
of the New Era, in the few remaining languages, within the shortest
possible time, the despatch of no more than one pioneer, to the
neighbouring Island of Ceylon, to Siam and to Indonesia, ere the
termination of