e messengers of His Glad Tidings, in awakening
royalty to His Call, in succoring His oppressed followers, in routing His
enemies, in upholding His Law, in asserting the independence of His Faith,
in multiplying the financial resources of its nascent institutions and,
last but not least, in rearing its greatest House of Worship--the first
Ma_sh_riqu'l-A_dh_kar of the western world.

The hour is now ripe for this greatly gifted, richly blessed community to
arise and reaffirm, through the launching of yet another enterprise, its
primacy, enhance its spiritual heritage, plumb greater depths of
consecration and capture loftier heights in the course of its strenuous
and ceaseless labors for the exaltation of God's Cause.

The Ten Year Plan, constituting the third and final stage of the initial
epoch in the evolution of 'Abdu'l-Baha's Master Plan, which, God willing,
will raise to greater heights the fame of the stalwart American Baha'i
Community, and seat it upon "the throne of an everlasting dominion,"
envisaged by the Author of the Tablets of this same Plan, involves:

First, the opening of the following virgin territories, eleven in Africa:
Cape Verde Islands, Canary Islands, French Somaliland, French Togoland,
Mauritius, Northern Territories Protectorate, Portuguese Guinea, Reunion
Island, Spanish Guinea, St. Helena and St. Thomas Island; eight in Asia:
Caroline Islands, Dutch New Guinea, Hainan Island, Kazakhstan, Macao
Island, Sakhalin Island, Tibet and Tonga Islands; six in Europe: Andorra,
Azores, Balearic Islands, Lofoten Islands, Spitzbergen and Ukraine; and
four in America: Aleutian Islands, Falkland Islands, Key West and Kodiak
Island.

Second, the consolidation of the Faith in the following territories, six
in Asia: China, Formosa, Japan, Korea, Manchuria, Philippine Islands; two
in Africa: Liberia and South Africa; twelve in Europe: the ten goal
countries, Finland and France; three in America: the Hawaiian Islands,
Alaska and Puerto Rico.

Third, the extension of assistance to the National Spiritual Assemblies of
the Baha'is of Central and South America, as well as to the National
Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of Italy and Switzerland in forming
twenty national spiritual assemblies in the republics of Latin America and
two in Europe, namely in Italy and Switzerland; the extension of
assistance for the establishment of a national Haziratu'l-Quds in the
capital of each of the aforementioned countries as we