s of the newly emerged national
and regional spiritual assemblies, as an essential preliminary to the
formation of additional ones designed to buttress the fabric of a steadily
expanding Administrative Order. Simultaneous with the acceleration in the
process of individual conversion, the equally pressing need of
safeguarding local spiritual assemblies from dissolution and of increasing
rapidly their number, must continually be borne in mind, as the most
effectual means for the strengthening of the structural basis of the
Administrative Order of the Faith. Complementing this laudable task,
strenuous efforts must be exerted for the purpose of multiplying the
existing groups and isolated centers in all the continents of the globe,
insuring thereby the early attainment of the goal of five thousand Baha'i
centers in the Eastern and Western Hemispheres. The three remaining
Haziratu'l-Quds, the last two national endowments, the one remaining
Temple site, must, despite the present obstacles and the complications
that have arisen, be speedily acquired, whilst the unexpected setback in
the purchase of the Temple site in Frankfurt must be overcome. The
important two-fold task of translating and of publishing Baha'i
literature, constituting so vital an aspect of the Plan, must be
diligently pursued and rapidly completed. The construction of the Home for
the Aged--an institution designed to inaugurate the Dependencies of the
Mother Temple of the West--must without further delay be commenced. The
process of incorporating firmly grounded local as well as newly formed
national and regional spiritual assemblies must be given an unprecedented
impetus in every continent of the globe. The no less essential obligation
to establish the remaining Baha'i Publishing Trusts must likewise be
discharged. Strenuous efforts must be exerted to vindicate the independent
character of the Baha'i Faith through obtaining recognition by civil
authorities, in as many countries, states and localities as possible, of
both the Baha'i Marriage Certificate and the Baha'i Holy Days. Nor should
any effort be spared, however severe the challenge, to insure the
acquisition and preservation for posterity of the few remaining historic
sites in the Cradle of the Faith, and particularly those associated with
the incarceration and execution of its Herald in A_dh_irbayjan. The
equally meritorious project of transferring the remains of the Father of
Baha'u'llah, of the mothe