e remarkable vitality, courage and determination which they are
increasingly demonstrating in enlarging the limits of the Faith and in
implanting its banner beyond the confines of that continent, over and
above the task assigned to them in accordance with the provisions of their
Plan, and in territories where they are destined to exert a notable
influence through their collective efforts and achievements in the years
immediately ahead.

As the Plan, to which they stand committed, enters upon the last stage in
its unfoldment the members of this community, however remarkable their
accomplishments have been in the past, must steel themselves and through a
supreme effort, endeavour to rise to still greater heights of dedication,
display in the pioneering field a still more compelling degree of
consecration, evince a still nobler spirit of self-abnegation, and a
greater awareness of the gravity of the issues at stake and of the
inestimable value of the prizes within their reach. That they may be
qualified to undertake a still greater mission, assume weightier
responsibilities and embark upon mightier enterprises, the adequate
discharge of their present duties and the fulfilment of their sacred
obligations is no doubt essential.

The multiplication and consolidaion of the administrative institutions of
the Faith of Baha'u'llah throughout Australia, New Zealand and Tasmania,
as its followers in those regions, must undoubtedly be well aware,
constitutes the primary foundation for, and the necessary prelude to, the
firm establishment of the institutions of His Administrative Order, beyond
the confines and in the neighbourhood of these territories, and amidst the
highly diversified tribes and races inhabiting the numerous and widely
scattered islands and archipelagos of the South Pacific Ocean.

The approaching Holy Year, a period of such unique significance in the
history of the Faith; the prospect of the active participation of some of
the elected representatives and members of the community holding aloft the
torch of the Faith in the Antipodes; in one of the most important
Conferences to be held during that year; their formal association with no
less than seven other National Spiritual Assemblies in the prosecution of
the colossal tasks that are to be initiated in South East Asia, in the
course of the coming decade; the manifold blessings which must assuredly
flow from the assumption of such a sacred function and in the cours