sk undertaken is immense, fraught with momentous possibilities,
highly delicate in nature, and bound to have far-reaching repercussions,
not only in the West, and particularly in the continent of Europe, where
the institutions of Baha'u'llah's Administrative Order are emerging with
such rapidity and showing such promise, but on the continent of Asia,
where the overwhelming majority of the followers of the Most Great Name,
have endured such grievous afflictions, and are faced with grave peril,
and are battling so heroically against the forces of darkness with which
they are encompassed.

The nature of the work in which this wide-awake, untrammelled
unprejudiced, freedom-loving community, is so energetically engaged,
cannot, therefore, be regarded as a purely local and isolated enterprise,
but is vitally linked with the fortunes of a world-encircling Order,
functioning mysteriously in both the Eastern and Western Hemispheres,
highly organized in its administrative machinery, sensitive in its
mechanism, far-flung in its ramifications, challenging in its features,
revolutionizing in its implications, and destined to seek increasingly, as
it expands and develops, the good-will and assistance of the civil
authorities in every continent of the globe.

The number of pioneers, both from among the veterans of the Faith who have
participated in the early establishment of this infant Order in the
Antipodes, and the new believers who have embraced its Cause, must, if
this task is to be successfully carried out, be substantially increased.
The flow of funds to both the local and national treasuries must
correspondingly be augmented and systematically sustained. The heroism and
self-sacrifice of those who prosecute the Plan, both as administrators and
pioneers, must attain greater heights and engender still more powerful
forces in the spiritual life of this community.

The relationship binding it to the civil authorities of the Australian
Commonwealth, the Dominion of New Zealand and the Island of Tasmania, must
be assiduously fostered. The ties linking it with the members of the
world-wide community of the adherents of the Faith of Baha'u'llah, must be
rapidly strengthened and multiplied. The unity and solidarity of its
constituent members must be simultaneously reinforced, its roots
permanently planted in the soil of the Covenants of both Baha'u'llah and
'Abdu'l-Baha, its branches spread out irresistibly to the furthest ends of
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