d forty in the
Indian subcontinent, over two hundred and ten in the Pacific area, over
five hundred and fifty in the African continent, over nine hundred and
eighty in Persia, over fourteen hundred and sixty in the United States of
America.

The northernmost outpost of the Faith has now been pushed far beyond the
Arctic Circle, as far as 76 degrees latitude, in consequence of the
arrival of William Carr, a Canadian believer, in Thule, Greenland, a
settlement situated three degrees above Arctic Bay, Franklin, the most
northerly center hitherto established in the Baha'i world.

The number of local spiritual assemblies organized in all the continents
of the globe, constituting the broad and indestructible foundation of the
edifice of a rising Order, now exceeds one thousand, an increase of more
than a hundred in the space of a single year.

The number of islands now within the pale of the Faith, situated in the
Atlantic, the Pacific, and the Indian Oceans as well as in the
Mediterranean and the North Sea, is now over a hundred, seventy-four of
which have been opened since the inauguration of the World Spiritual
Crusade, including five islands, situated in the Atlantic and Indian
Oceans and not listed as objectives of the Ten-Year Plan.

The number of languages into which the continually expanding literature of
the Faith has been and is being translated has risen to two hundred and
thirty, representing an increase of forty in the course of one year.
Seventy-five of these languages are included in the ninety-one named in
the Ten-Year Plan, while sixty-six have been added to those originally
specified in the provisions of that same Plan. Of this widely disseminated
literature seven books have been lately presented by an adherent of the
Faith residing in Christchurch, New Zealand, to the officer in charge of
the American Antarctic Expedition for its library, while others have been
dispatched, beyond the Antarctic Circle, as far south as the Expedition's
base, at McMurdo Sound, 77 degrees latitude, on the shores of the Ross
Sea.

The number of incorporated spiritual assemblies, whether local or
national, in all the continents of the globe, has now swelled to one
hundred and ninety-five, more than ninety of which are situated in the
United States of America. Outstanding among those that have been recently
registered are the assemblies of Bern, Switzerland; Frankfurt, Germany;
Luxembourg, Luxembourg; Brisbane, Australia; Sca