orate the hundredth anniversary of the Declaration of the Mission of
the Founder of their Faith.

The task they now assume involves the consolidation of the manifold
institutions which, through the operation of three successive Plans, have
been patiently and laboriously established, as well as the erection of the
administrative structure of the Faith in the virgin territories along the
shores, and in the vicinity, of the Indian sub-continent, in the Islands
of the Indian Ocean, in African Dependencies, and as far as the Islands of
the South Pacific Ocean.

Through the prosecution of the Plans initiated by your Assembly these
communities have acquired the training and experience that have qualified
them to embark upon so extensive and momentous an undertaking--an
undertaking which if victoriously consummated will eclipse all the joint
efforts and enterprises which have illuminated the pages of Indian Baha'i
history since the inception of the Formative Age of the Baha'i
Dispensation.

The first and most sacred obligation confronting them, on the morrow of
the launching of their Ten-Year Plan, is the despatch and settlement,
during the current year and the one succeeding it, of pioneers in the
sixteen virgin territories and islands, assigned to your Assembly
according to the provisions of the aforementioned Plan. The opening of the
six dependencies along the eastern and western coasts of the Indian
subcontinent must be given careful attention, and must be carried out with
promptitude and vigour. The despatch and definite settlement of no more
than one or two pioneers in each of these territories and islands is a
task not only of great urgency but of infinite merit, and constitutes the
most important feature of the initial phase of the Plan.

Next in importance and of no less urgency is the selection and purchase,
either within or in the outskirts of the capital-city of India--in which
the Administrative Headquarters of the Faith has already been
established--of the site of the

First Mashriq'ul Adhkar of the Indian sub-continent, covering an area of
approximately one or two acres at least which can gradually be enlarged in
the course of the coming years.

Collateral with this vital project is the preparation in conjunction with
the Australian National Assembly of a suitable pamphlet by your Assembly,
and the adoption of energetic measures for its translation into the
languages allocated to the Australian and Indian N