hich, if not
speedily and fundamentally remedied, will not only mutilate the Plan
itself, but jeopardize the prizes won so laboriously since its
inauguration.

As I have already forewarned the energetic prosecutors of the global
Crusade in the North American continent, the home front, from which have
sprung, since the inception of the Formative Age of the Faith, the dynamic
forces which have set in motion, and directed the operation, of so many
processes, in both the teaching and administrative spheres of Baha'i
activity, and which must continue to act as a base for the steady
expansion of future operations in every continent of the globe, and the
extension of their ramifications to the uttermost corners of the earth,
and which must be increasingly regarded, as the forces of internal
disruption and the stress and danger of aggressiveness from without gather
momentum, as the sole stronghold of a Faith which cannot hope to escape
unscathed from the turmoil gathering around it--such a home front must, at
all costs, and in the shortest possible time, be spiritually
reinvigorated, administratively expanded, and materially replenished. The
flame of devotion ignited and the enthusiasm generated, during the
celebrations which commemorated the centenary of the birth of the Mission
of the Divine Author of our Faith, and which, in the course of the years
immediately following it have carried the members of the American Baha'i
Community, so far and so high, along the road leading to their ultimate
destiny, must, in whatever way possible, be fanned and continually fed
throughout the entire area of the Union, in every state from the Atlantic
to the Pacific seaboards, in every locality where Baha'is reside, in every
heart throbbing with the love of Baha'u'llah. The spirit that sent forth,
not so long ago, in such rapid succession, so many pioneers to such remote
areas of the globe, must at all costs and above everything else, be
recaptured, for the twofold purpose of swelling the number, and of
ensuring the continual flow, of pioneers, so essential for the
safeguarding of the prizes won in the course of the several campaigns of a
world-girdling Crusade, and of combatting the evil forces which a
relentless and all-pervasive materialism, the cancerous growth of militant
racialism, political corruption, unbridled capitalism, wide-spread
lawlessness and gross immorality, are, alas, unleashing, with ominous
swiftness, amongst various class