e to be held respectively in
the months of January, March, May, July and September, under the auspices
of the Regional Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of Central and East
Africa, the National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of Australia, the
National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of the United States of
America, the National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of Germany and
Austria, and the Regional Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of South-East
Asia.

They are to be convened by the chairmen of the aforementioned Regional and
National Spiritual Assemblies for the five-fold purpose of offering humble
thanksgiving to the Divine Author of our Faith, Who has graciously enabled
His followers, during a period of deepening anxiety and amidst the
confusion and uncertainties of a critical phase in the fortunes of
mankind, to prosecute uninterruptedly the Ten-Year Plan formulated for the
execution of the Grand Design conceived by 'Abdu'l-Baha; of reviewing and
celebrating the series of signal victories won so rapidly in the course of
each of the campaigns of this world-encircling Crusade; of deliberating on
ways and means that will insure its triumphant consummation; and of
lending simultaneously a powerful impetus, the world over, to the vital
process of individual conversion--the preeminent purpose underlying the
Plan in all its ramifications--and to the construction and completion of
the three Mother Temples to be built in the European, the African, and
Australian continents.

PHENOMENAL ADVANCE ACHIEVED IN WORLD CRUSADE

The phenomenal advances made since the inception of this globe-girdling
Crusade, in the brief space of less than five years, eclipses--if we pause
to ponder the scope and significance of recent developments--in both the
number and quality of the feats achieved by its prosecutors, any previous
collective enterprise undertaken by the followers of the Faith, at any
time and in any part of the world, since the close of the initial and most
turbulent epoch of the Heroic Age of the Baha'i Dispensation.

The raising of the number of Baha'i centers--foci and pivots of Baha'i
teaching and administrative activity--all over the globe, from twenty-five
hundred to forty-five hundred; of the number of countries, both sovereign
States and Dependencies, included within the pale of the Faith from one
hundred and twenty-eight to two hundred and fifty-four; and of the number
of Baha'i national and regional Sp