in Japan, in Indonesia and in the Dominion of New Zealand, are destined to
function in regions where the yellow, the brown and white races
predominate, and in which the majority of the inhabitants belong either to
the Buddhist, the Muslim or Christian Faiths. In so vast and promising an
area, blessed by the labors of two Hands of the Cause of God, the number
of localities where Baha'is reside, which in the concluding years of the
Apostolic Age of the Faith, had barely reached ten, has now swelled to
over two hundred and ten, scattered over no less than forty islands. It
already boasts over seventeen hundred believers of the brown race alone,
more than fifty local spiritual assemblies, five national Haziratu'l-Quds,
three Baha'i schools, twenty-one incorporated local spiritual assemblies,
four states where Baha'i national endowments have been established, a site
purchased for its first projected Ma_sh_riqu'l-A_dh_kar, three territories
where the Baha'i Marriage Certificate is recognized, and three others
where Baha'i children have been allowed to observe the Baha'i Holy Days,
as well as the translation of Baha'i literature into no less than fifty of
the languages current among its indigenous population. It, moreover,
prides itself on the initiation of teaching activities in no less than a
hundred of the four hundred islands constituting one of its numerous
southern archipelagos.

THE MOTHER-TEMPLES OF THREE CONTINENTS

So brilliant and diversified a record of services to the Cause of
Baha'u'llah, in both the Eastern and Western Hemispheres, has been greatly
enriched by the plans now initiated for the launching of an ambitious
three-fold enterprise, designed to compensate for the disabilities
suffered by the sorely-tried Community of the followers of His Faith in
the land of His birth, aiming at the erection, in localities as far apart
as Frankfurt, Sydney and Kampala, of the Mother-Temples of the European,
the Australian and African continents, at a cost of approximately one
million dollars, complementing the Temples already constructed in the
Asiatic and American continents. One-third of this sum I, gladly and with
a grateful heart, pledge at this auspicious hour, a sum which, when added
to the funds already donated for this laudable purpose, amounting to one
hundred and forty thousand dollars--over one hundred thousand of which
represents the munificent donation of the Hand of the Cause, Amelia
Collins--will co