e in his prayers in the holy Shrines, and
supplicates that you all may be richly blessed, and render the Faith
devoted services.

With warm Baha'i love.

R. Rabbani.

[From the Guardian:]

Dear and valued co-workers:

The achievements that have distinguished and enobled the record of
services rendered by the valiant, fast expanding, steadily consolidating,
richly endowed, highly promising Baha'i Communities in the Antipodes have
brought intense joy to my heart, and have, no doubt, excited the
admiration of the members of their sister communities throughout the
Baha'i world. The contribution which, severally and collectively, the
organized followers of the Faith of Baha'u'llah in the Australian
continent, in New Zealand and in Tasmania, are making towards the progress
of the Ten-Year Crusade in so many of its aspects, ever since its
inception, is truly exemplary and augurs well for their future development
and triumph under the provisions of this momentous Ten-Year Plan.

The steady increase in the number of believers, of isolated centres,
groups and assemblies evokes my deep and heartfelt admiration and
gratitude. The purchase of the site of the first Ma_sh_riqu'l-A_dh_kar in
the Antipodes is a service that has greatly enhanced the prestige of the
Faith, and consitutes a historic victory worthy to rank as a distinct
milestone in the history of its progressive unfoldment throughout
Australasia. The purchase of the Haziratu'l-Quds in Auckland, as the
future headquarters of the New Zealand National Spiritual Assembly, is
another accomplishment that merits the highest praise. The opening of the
virgin territories assigned, under the Ten-Year Plan, to the elected
representatives of these communities has, furthermore, demonstrated the
readiness of the members of these communities to speedily and worthily
achieve the goals of this dynamic Plan in this particular and vital sphere
of collective Baha'i endeavour. The assistance extended by these same
representatives to their brethren in the Indian sub-continent in
connection with the translation of Baha'i literature into the languages
allotted to them, under this same Plan, affords, moreover, further
evidence of their alacrity, their devotion, their watchfulness in
promoting, in every way possible, the manifold interests of their beloved
Faith at this crucial stage in its development and consolidation.

Laden with such victories, conscious of the future brightness of thei