d Leroy
Ioas, at the Djakarta Conference.

To three of them, attending the Kampala, the Sydney and the Frankfurt
Conferences, I shall entrust a portion of the blessed earth from the
inmost Shrine of Baha'u'llah, a lock of His precious Hair, and a
reproduction of His Portrait, to be exhibited by them to the assembled
friends at these Conferences. Two of these representatives will be
instructed to deposit, on my behalf, the blessed earth in the foundations
of the two Temples to be erected in the African and Australian continents,
while the other sacred gifts will be delivered for safe keeping by these
representatives to the Central and East African Regional Assembly and the
Australian and German National Spiritual Assemblies. A fourth portrait of
Baha'u'llah will be entrusted to my representative, Leroy Ioas, to be
exhibited at the Djakarta Conference, and returned for safe keeping to the
Holy Land, while to Ugo Giachery, representing me at the Chicago
Conference, will be assigned the duty of exhibiting the portraits of
Baha'u'llah and of the Bab, already entrusted to the United States
National Spiritual Assembly.

FOURTH PHASE OF TEN-YEAR PLAN

The holding of this second series of Intercontinental Conferences, marking
the halfway point of the greatest Crusade ever embarked upon for the
propagation of the Faith of Baha'u'llah in both the eastern and western
hemispheres, signalizes the opening of the fourth phase of the Ten-Year
Plan. The first phase, covering the initial twelve months of this
stupendous enterprise, will forever be associated with the carrying of the
Message of Baha'u'llah to no less than a hundred countries of the globe.
The second phase, lasting twice as long as the first, witnessed the
acquisition of a remarkably large number of national Haziratu'l-Quds, and
the establishment, in numerous countries, of Baha'i national endowments,
complementing, through the process of administrative consolidation, the
striking enlargement of the orbit of the Faith in the course of the
initial phase of the Plan. The third phase, equal in duration to the
preceding phase, has been made memorable by the striking multiplication of
Baha'i centers, and the formation of no less than sixteen Regional and
National Spiritual Assemblies.

The fourth phase, the opening of which is now approaching, must be
immortalized, on the one hand, by an unprecedented increase in the number
of avowed supporters of the Faith, in all th