publishing agencies, can extend should be gratefully
welcomed and utilized to the full, until such time as the institutions
destined to evolve in these countries can assume independently the conduct
of their own affairs.

A constant interchange of news between the centers, through the medium of
the Geneva Bulletin, whose scope must be steadily enlarged, and close
contact with each other through the European office of the European
Teaching Committee, functioning as an adjunct to the International Baha'i
Bureau, should, furthermore, be maintained and reinforced, whenever
circumstances are favorable, by the convening of conferences, which will
bring together as many pioneers laboring in these ten countries, and newly
converted believers, as possible, enabling them to jointly consider their
plans, problems and activities, concert measures for the progress of the
Faith in that continent, and pave the way for the future formation of
regional national spiritual assemblies, which must precede the
constitution of separate independent national institutions in each of
these countries. Such summer schools and conferences, initiated and
conducted by one of the most important agencies of the highest
administrative institution in the North American Baha'i Community,
gathering together as they will Baha'i representatives of various races
and nations on the continent of Europe, will, by reason of their
unprecedented character in the evolution of the Faith, since its
inception, constitute a historic landmark in the development of the
organic world-wide Baha'i community, and will be the harbinger of those
epoch-making world conferences, at which the representatives of the
nations and races within the Baha'i fold will convene for the
strengthening of the spiritual and administrative bonds that unite its
members.

INITIATING NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS AND ADAPTING TEACHING METHODS

A beginning, however limited in scope, should be made, ere the present
stage of the Divine Plan draws to a close, in the direction of
establishing befitting administrative headquarters for the rising
communities and their projected assemblies in the capital cities of
Stockholm, of Oslo, of Copenhagen, of The Hague, of Brussels, of
Luxembourg, of Madrid, of Lisbon, of Rome and of Bern, through the rental
of suitable quarters which, in the course of time, must lead to either the
construction or the purchase in each of these capitals of a national
Haziratu'