inite
objective within a specified number of years, would seem, at the present
hour, highly desirable and opportune, and will, as a magnet, attract, to
an unprecedented degree, the blessings of Baha'u'llah on the members of
both communities, both individually and collectively.

Now that the structural basis of the Baha'i Administrative Order has been
firmly and definitely laid in those far-away lands, and the National
Headquarters of that Order established, a systematic effort must be
exerted to widen the basis of that Order, by multiplying the
Administrative institutions and forming the necessary nucleii, which, as
they develop and are consolidated, will have to be utilized as the
divinely ordained and most effectual instruments for the proclamation of
the Faith to the masses.

I fully realize how small are your numbers, how circumscribed are your
means, how vast the distances that separate the centres already
established. But I firmly believe that the initiation of a Plan to remedy
the very deficiencies from which the infant Administrative Order is now
suffering, and a firm resolve to carry out its provisions, as well as a
sustained effort to make the necessary sacrifices for its consummation,
will set in motion forces of such magnitude, and draw upon both
communities blessings of such potency, as shall excite the wonder of the
believers themselves, and cause their Faith to enter an era of
unprecedented expansion and marvellous and fruitful development.

The concluding years of the first Baha'i century have witnessed a notable
progress in the development and consolidation of both communities. The
first decade of the succeeding century must synchronize with a no less
remarkable extension of that essential administrative foundation on which
the future institutions of a flourishing Faith must repose, and on which
its destinies and security must ultimately depend.

May the Spirit of Baha'u'llah guide, sustain and inspire you in the
discharge of the noble and formidable tasks which will face you in the
years to come.

Your true and grateful brother,
Shoghi.

LETTER OF APRIL 7TH, 1947

Haifa, April 7th, 1947.

Dear Baha'i Sister:

Our beloved Guardian has instructed me to write and ask you to please
forward to him copies of the letters of acknowledgement written by the
Bishops who received copies of "God Passes By".

He read in the British News Letter that such letters had been received by
your Assem