derating share in
awakening the peoples and races inhabiting the entire Pacific area, to the
Message of Baha'u'llah, and to act as the Vanguard of His hosts in their
future spiritual conquest of the main body of the yellow race on the
Chinese mainland--the emergence of such an assembly may be said to have, at
long last, established a spiritual axis, extending from the Antipodes to
the northern islands of the Pacific Ocean--an axis whose northern and
southern poles will act as powerful magnets, endowed with exceptional
spiritual potency, and towards which other younger and less experienced
communities will tend for some time to gravitate.

A responsibility, at once weighty and inescapable, must rest on the
communities which occupy so privileged a position in so vast and turbulent
an area of the globe. However great the distance that separates them;
however much they differ in race, language, custom, and religion; however
active the political forces which tend to keep them apart and foster
racial and political antagonisms, the close and continued association of
these communities in their common, their peculiar and paramount task of
raising up and of consolidating the embryonic World Order of Baha'u'llah
in those regions of the globe, is a matter of vital and urgent importance,
which should receive on the part of the elected representatives of their
communities, a most earnest and prayerful consideration.

The Plan, which it is the privilege of the Australian Baha'i community to
energetically prosecute must, simultaneously, be assured of the
unqualified, the systematic and whole-hearted support of its members.

Theirs indeed is a twofold task which must under no circumstances be
either neglected or underrated. The one aims at the consolidation, the
multiplication and expansion of the institutions so laboriously erected
throughout the length and breadth of the Australian commonwealth and in
the islands beyond its confines, in strict accordance with the provisions
of the Ten-Year Plan, while the other is designed to forge fresh links
with its sister communities, and particularly those situated in the North,
in anticipation of the Mission which the newly fledged Baha'i communities,
now rapidly multiplying throughout the length and breadth of that area,
are destined and are collectively called upon to discharge.

Whilst addressing itself to the meritorious twofold task with which it is
now confronted, this wide-awake, swiftl