lminate in the
spiritual conquest of the entire planet.

It is incumbent upon the members of the American Baha'i Community, the
chief executors of 'Abdu'l-Baha's Divine Plan, the members of the Canadian
Baha'i Community acting as their allies, and the members of the Latin
American Baha'i Communities in their capacity as associates in the
execution of this Plan, to brace themselves and initiate, in addition to
the responsibilities they have assumed, and will assume, in other
continents of the globe, an intercontinental campaign designed to carry a
stage further the glorious work already inaugurated throughout the Western
Hemisphere.

SPECIAL TASKS OF FOUR NATIONAL ASSEMBLIES

The task, at once arduous, thrilling and challenging, which now confronts
these four Baha'i communities involves: First, the formation, under the
aegis of the National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of the United
States, and in collaboration with the two existing national assemblies in
Latin America, of one national spiritual assembly in each of the twenty
Latin American republics as well as the establishment of a national
spiritual assembly in Alaska under the aegis of the National Spiritual
Assembly of the Baha'is of the United States of America. Second, the
establishment of the first dependency of the Ma_sh_riqu'l-A_dh_kar in
Wilmette. Third, the purchase of land for the future construction of two
Ma_sh_riqu'l-A_dh_kars, one in Toronto, Ontario; one in Panama City,
Panama, situated respectively in North and in Central America. Fourth, the
opening of the following twenty-seven virgin territories and islands:
Anticosti Island, Baranof Island, Cape Breton Island, Franklin, Grand
Manan Island, Keewatin, Labrador, Magdalen Islands, Miquelon Island and
St. Pierre Island, Queen Charlotte Islands and Yukon, assigned to the
National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of Canada; Aleutian Islands,
Falkland Islands, Key West and Kodiak Island assigned to the National
Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of the United States of America; Bahama
Islands, British Honduras, Dutch West Indies and Margarita Island,
assigned to the National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of Central
America; British Guiana, Chiloee Island, Dutch Guiana, French Guiana,
Galapagos Islands, Juan Fernandez Islands, Leeward Islands, and Windward
Islands, assigned to the National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of
South America. Fifth, the translation and publication of Baha'i l