them in one of the Tablets of the Divine Plan, "all
the ice of that country will be melted, and its cold weather become
temperate--that is, if the hearts be touched with the heat of the love of
God, that territory will become a divine rose garden and a heavenly
paradise, and the souls, even as fruitful trees, will acquire the utmost
freshness and beauty. Effort, the utmost effort, is required."

Theirs is the duty, the privilege and honor, once their central
administrative institution is firmly established, its subsidiary agencies
are vigorously operating, and its immediate requirements are met, to take
preliminary measures, on however small a scale, ere the Second Seven Year
Plan is terminated, for the dispatch of a handful of pioneers to some of
these territories, as an evidence of the determination and capacity of a
newly independent national community to assume the functions, and
discharge the responsibilities with which it has been invested in those
immortal Tablets by the pen of the Center of Baha'u'llah's Covenant.

"There is no difference between countries," is 'Abdu'l-Baha's testimony in
one of those Tablets. "The future of the Dominion of Canada, however, is
very great, and the events connected with it infinitely glorious. It shall
become the object of the glance of Providence, and shall show forth the
bounties of the All-Glorious." "Again I repeat," He, in that same Tablet
affirms, "that the future of Canada is very great, whether from a material
or a spiritual standpoint.... The clouds of the Kingdom will water the
seeds of guidance which have been sown there."

TASKS IN LATIN AMERICA

In the far-flung Latin American field, where the first fruits of the
Divine Plan, operating beyond the confines of the North American
continent, have already been garnered in such abundance, the Latin
American Baha'i communities, from the Mexican border to the extremity of
Chile, should bestir themselves for the collective, the historic and
gigantic tasks that await them, and which must culminate, ere the expiry
of the present Plan, in the formation of two national spiritual assemblies
for Central and South America.

The marvelous progress achieved as a result of the operation of the first
Seven Year Plan, as evidenced by the establishment of full-fledged
spiritual assemblies in the virgin territories of no less than fourteen
republics, and the formation of active groups in the remaining republics,
has been enha