ge intensification of efforts, rededication and
achievement of goals of Plan in order to discharge befittingly the sacred,
manifold, inescapable, urgent responsibilities confronting the entire
American Baha'i Community. Appeal for unprecedented increase in pioneers
on the home front and all continents of the globe, on which the
prosperity, security and destiny of the American believers must ultimately
rest.

[April 29, 1957]

DUAL, INESCAPABLE, PARAMOUNT RESPONSIBILITIES

Assembly's dual, inescapable, paramount responsibilities for current year
are to ensure expansion and consolidation of the home front and the rapid
multiplication of pioneers abroad to reinforce Latin American, African,
European and Pacific campaigns of World Crusade. Fervently supplicating
for signal success in fulfillment of dearest hopes.

[May 7, 1957]

HEIGHTS NEVER BEFORE ATTAINED

The American Baha'i Community has, ever since the launching of the global
Spiritual Crusade, in which it has been assigned the lion's share in view
of the primacy conferred upon it by 'Abdu'l-Baha, exerted itself, in
numerous and widely scattered areas of the globe, with commendable
perseverance, a high sense of undeviating loyalty and exemplary
consecration. The inexorable march of events, hastening its members along
the path of their destiny, is steadily carrying them to the stage at which
the momentous Plan, to which they have dedicated their resources, will
have reached its midway point.

ENDURING ACHIEVEMENTS

A prodigious expenditure of effort, a stupendous flow of material
resources, an unprecedented dispersal of pioneers, embracing so vast a
section of the globe, and bringing in their wake the rise, the
multiplication and consolidation of so many institutions, so divers in
character, so potent and full of promise, already stand to their credit,
and augur well for a befitting consummation of a decade-long task in the
years immediately ahead.

The opening of a large percentage of the virgin territories, scattered
over the face of the planet, and assigned, under the provisions of the
Ten-Year Plan, to this community and its sister and daughter communities
in all continents of the globe; the allocation of vast sums, for the
founding of national Haziratu'l-Quds, for the establishment of national
Baha'i endowments; and for the purchase of the sites of future Baha'i
Temples; the financial aid extended and the moral support acco