oung in years, yet withal so rich in exploits,
may, in the months immediately ahead, as well as in the years immediately
following this coming Jubilee, maintain, untarnished and unimpaired, its
record of service to our beloved Faith, that it may further embellish,
through still nobler feats, its annals, is the dearest wish of my heart,
and the object of my constant supplications at the Holy Threshold.

[November 23, 1951]

FUNDS FOR INTERNATIONAL CENTER

Deeply touched by reconsecration and readiness to sacrifice. Praying for
fulfilment of your hopes. Advise allocate substantial portion of budget to
meet continual needs arising at International Center of Faith.

[May 3, 1952]

FORTY-FIFTH ANNUAL CONVENTION: U.S. TASKS IN WORLD CRUSADE

My soul is uplifted in joy and thanksgiving at the triumphant conclusion
of the Second Seven Year Plan immortalized by the brilliant victories
simultaneously won by the vanguard of the hosts of Baha'u'llah in Latin
America, in Europe and in Africa--victories befittingly crowned through the
consummation of a fifty year old enterprise, the completion of the first
Ma_sh_riqu'l-A_dh_kar of the western world. The signal success that has
attended the second collective enterprise undertaken in the course of
American Baha'i history climaxes a term of stewardship to the Faith of
Baha'u'llah, of almost three score years' duration--a period which has
enriched the annals of the concluding epoch of the Heroic, and shed luster
on the first thirty years of the Formative Age of the Baha'i Dispensation.
So fecund a period has been marked by teaching activities unexcelled
throughout the western world and has been distinguished by administrative
exploits unparalleled in the annals of any Baha'i national community
whether in the East or in the West. I am impelled, on the occasion of the
anniversary of the Most Great Festival, coinciding with a triple
celebration--the dedication of the Mother Temple of the West, the launching
of a World Spiritual Crusade and the commemoration of the Birth of
Baha'u'llah's Mission--to pay warmest tribute to the preeminent share which
the American Baha'i Community has had in the course of over half a century
in proclaiming His Revelation, in shielding His Cause, in championing His
Covenant, in erecting the administrative machinery of His embryonic World
Order, in expounding His teachings, in translating and disseminating His
Holy Word, in dispatching th