he highly salutary and spiritually beneficent
experiment of encouraging a more active participation by these newly won
supporters of the Faith in Latin America, and a greater assumption of
administrative responsibility on their part, in the ever expanding
activities to be entrusted wholly to their care in the years to come,
should be, in particular, developed, systematized and placed on a sure and
unassailable foundation. Above all, the paramount duty of deepening the
spiritual life of these newly fledged, these precious and highly esteemed
co-workers, and of enlightening their minds regarding the essential
verities enshrined in their Faith, its fundamental institutions, its
history and genesis--the twin Covenants of Baha'u'llah and of 'Abdu'l-Baha,
the present Administrative Order, the future World Order, the Laws of the
Most Holy Book, the inseparable institutions of the Guardianship and of
the Universal House of Justice, the salient events of the Heroic and
Formative Ages of the Faith, and its relationship with the Dispensations
that have preceded it, its attitude toward the social and political
organizations by which it is surrounded--must continue to constitute the
most vital aspect of the great spiritual Crusade launched by the champions
of the Faith from among the peoples of their sister republics in the
South.

The magnitude of the tasks these heroes and champions of the Faith are
summoned, at this hour, crowded with destiny, to discharge from the
borders of Greenland to the southern extremity of Chile in the Western
Hemisphere, and from Scandinavia in the north, to the Iberian peninsula in
the south of the European continent, is, indeed, breath-taking in its
implications and back-breaking in the strain it imposes. The sacrifices
they are called upon to voluntarily make for the successful performance of
such herculean, such holy, such epoch-making tasks, are comparable to none
but those which their spiritual forbears have willingly accepted at the
hour of the birth of their Faith more than a hundred years ago. Theirs is
the privilege, no less meritorious and perhaps as epoch-making, to
preside, in their own homeland and its neighboring continents, over, and
direct the forces generated by, the birth of an order that posterity will
acclaim as both the offspring of that Faith, and the precursor of the
Golden Age in which that same Faith must, in the fullness of time, find
its fullest expression and most glorious con