versaries, its stalwart standard-bearers, in both hemispheres, have, in
accordance with their solemn pledges, given at the time of the inception
of the Ten-Year Crusade, been pursuing their historic task of enlarging
the orbit, and of consolidating the institutions, of a rapidly maturing
Administrative Order.

ACHIEVEMENTS OF WORLD CRUSADE

The number of territories included within the pale of the Faith, embracing
all the sovereign states and chief dependencies of the planet, has now, in
consequence of this prodigious effort, been raised to two hundred and
fifty-one, as a result of the opening of the island of Anticosti, in the
North Atlantic Ocean, by the Knight of Baha'u'llah, Mary Zabolotny, of the
arrival of a pioneer in Mafia Island, off the coast of Tanganyika, and of
the news received recently of the presence of a few followers of the Faith
in the Soviet Republics of Tad_zh_ikistan and of Kirgizia, almost
doubling, within the space of four years, the total number of territories
opened in the course of eleven decades of Baha'i history. Of the hundred
and thirty-one territories listed in the Ten-Year Plan, only Spitzbergen,
Nicobar Islands and the Chagos Archipelago, as well as eleven territories,
which are either incorporated in the Soviet Union or are included within
its orbit, remain to be opened by the band of intrepid warriors intent
upon enlarging the limits, and spreading far and wide the fame, of the
Faith of Baha'u'llah. Every single territory of the hundred and twenty,
mentioned by the Author of the Divine Plan in His memorable Tablets, is
now opened to His Father's Faith, proclaiming the exemplary fidelity of
His followers to the dearest wishes expressed by the Center of the
Covenant in those Tablets.

The total number of localities where the followers of the Most Great Name
now reside has, as a result of their unprecedented scattering over the
surface of the globe, exceeded the forty-two hundred mark, representing an
increase of no less than a thousand centers in the course of the last two
years. Of these localities--foci of the warming and healing light of an
all-conquering Revelation--over a hundred are now established in
Australasia, over a hundred and ten in the British Isles, over a hundred
and ten in the Goal Countries of Europe, over a hundred and ten in the
Dominion of Canada, over a hundred and thirty in Latin America, over a
hundred and thirty in Germany and Austria, over a hundred an