each of the
remaining continents of the globe for the erection of a House to be
consecrated to the worship of the one true God, and to the glory and honor
of His Messenger for this Day.

DEVELOPMENT OF BAHA'I WORLD CENTER

In the Holy Land, the center and pivot round which the divinely appointed,
fast multiplying institutions of a world-encircling, resistlessly marching
Faith revolve, the double process, so noticeable in recent years,
involving a rapid decline in the fortunes of the breakers of Baha'u'llah's
Covenant and proclaiming the rise of the institutions of its World
Administrative Center, in the shadow of His Shrine, has been accelerated
on the one hand, through the death, in miserable circumstances, of the
treacherous and malignant Majdi'd-Din, the last survivor of the principal
instigators of the rebellion against the Will of the Founder of our Faith,
and, on the other, through the laying of the foundation, and the erection
of some of the pillars, of the facade and of the northern side of the
International Baha'i Archives--the first of the major edifices destined to
constitute the seat of the World Baha'i Administrative Center to be
established on Mt. Carmel. No less than thirty of the fifty-two pillars,
each over seven meters high, of this imposing and strikingly beautiful
edifice have already been raised, whilst half of the nine hundred tons of
stone ordered in Italy for its construction have already been safely
delivered at the Port of Haifa. A contract, moreover, for over fifteen
thousand dollars has been placed with a tile factory in Utrecht for the
manufacture of over seven thousand green tiles designed to cover the five
hundred square meters of the roof of the building.

Coincident with these building operations an extensive plot, adjoining the
resting-place of the Greatest Holy Leaf has, after protracted and
difficult negotiations, been purchased for the sum of one hundred thousand
dollars, for the purpose of extending and safeguarding, on the one hand,
the area of the international Baha'i endowments on Mt. Carmel, and of
providing, on the other, the much needed space for the extension and
completion of the far-flung arc around which the edifices of the World
Baha'i Administrative Order are to be built. The recently acquired area
surrounding the holiest Shrine in the Baha'i World and its appointed
Qiblih in the plain of Akka has been further extended through the purchase
from the Development