'i burial grounds in Libya, Burma and
Tanganyika; the formulation of supplementary plans by the newly emerged
regional spiritual assemblies in Africa, and by the Baha'i communities of
the Seychelles and the Sudan; the acquisition of land for the Baha'i
summer schools of Egypt, of 'Iraq and of Chile; the establishment of
Baha'i endowments in the Aleutian Islands, in Swaziland, in Mentawai
Islands, in Spanish Morocco, in Basutoland and in Liberia; the acquisition
of local Haziratu'l-Quds in Gambia, in the Aleutian Islands, in Uganda, in
Spanish Morocco, in the British Cameroons, in Algeria and in French
Morocco; the translation of Baha'i literature into thirty-one African,
seven American Indian, and twenty-eight miscellaneous languages; the
purchase of Baha'i historic sites in the City of Adrianople; the founding
of an Indian Cultural Institute in Chichicastenango, Guatemala; the
transfer of the remains of the Bab's infant son from a mosque in _Sh_iraz
to the Baha'i burial ground in that city--these proclaim, in no uncertain
terms, the splendid initiative and the dynamic power of the faith of the
bearers of the Gospel of the New Day, as well as their unyielding
determination to exceed, by every means in their power, the bounds of
their prescribed duties and responsibilities assumed under the Ten-Year
Plan, and to enhance, through every channel open to them, and over as wide
a range as their circumstances permit, their share of service in the
collective task now being prosecuted with such exemplary heroism, on the
whole surface of the planet, for the world-wide triumph of the Cause of
Baha'u'llah and the ultimate redemption of all mankind.

SOLEMN RENEWAL OF DEDICATION

Dearly-beloved friends: The opening of the second year of the third phase
of a ten-year long Crusade, marking the passing of a little over one third
of its duration; coinciding with the closing of a period rendered
memorable by the achievement of so many of its goals, as well as by a
succession of victories won in fields beyond its scope; significantly
ushered in by the emergence of no less than thirteen national and regional
spiritual assemblies in four continents, with a jurisdiction embracing
more than forty territories of the globe, in the election of which over
three hundred delegates representing more than one hundred and thirty
local communities will participate; and over the inauguration of which no
less than thirteen Hands of the Cause of G