to enrich and deepen their knowledge of
the essentials of their Faith, its ideals, its history, its requirements
and its problems, must be carried out with ever-increasing energy as the
hour of the emergence of these Latin American communities into independent
existence steadily and inexorably approaches. The necessary guidance,
which can alone be properly insured through the maintenance of an
uninterrupted extension of administrative assistance, through the
settlement of pioneers and the visits of itinerant teachers to the
daughter communities, must under no circumstances be completely withdrawn,
after their independence has been achieved. Above all, the momentous
enterprise initiated in the transatlantic field of service, so vast in
conception, so timely, so arduous, so far-reaching in its potentialities,
so infinitely meritorious, must in the face of obstacles, however
insurmountable they may seem, be continually reinvigorated through
undiminished financial support, through an ever-expanding supply of
literature in each of the required languages, through frequent, and
whenever possible prolonged, visits of itinerant teachers, through the
continued settlement of pioneers, through the consolidation of the
assemblies already established, through the early constitution of properly
functioning assemblies in the few remaining goal countries as yet deprived
of this inestimable blessing, and last but not least through the exertion
of sustained and concentrated efforts designed to supplement these foci of
Baha'i national administrative activity with subsidiary centers whose
formation will herald the inauguration of teaching enterprises throughout
the provinces of each of these ten countries.

As the dynamic forces, sweeping forward the First Seven Year Plan, on the
last stages of its execution, rose rapidly to a crescendo, culminating in
the nationwide celebrations marking the centenary of the Faith of
Baha'u'llah and synchronized with a further and still more precipitous
decline in the fortunes of a war-torn bleeding society, so must every
aggravation in the state of a world still harassed by the ravages of a
devastating conflict, and now hovering on the brink of a yet more crucial
struggle, be accompanied by a still more ennobling manifestation of the
spirit of this second crusade, whose consummation might well coincide with
a period of distress far more acute than the one through which humanity is
now passing.

CEAS