n at Buchanan Bay on desolate Ellesmere
Island, latitude seventy-nine, less than seven hundred miles from the
North Pole. The irresistibly unfolding Crusade has been sanctified by the
death of heroic, eighty-eight year old Ella Bailey, elevating her to the
rank of the martyrs of the Faith, shedding further luster on the American
Baha'i Community and consecrating the soil of the fast-awakening African
continent.

The third announcement is that preliminary steps have been taken, aiming
at the acquisition of an extensive area at the head of the holy mountain,
scene of the revelation of the Tablet of Carmel, preparatory to the
purchase of the site for the future Mother Ma_sh_riqu'l-A_dh_kar of the
Holy Land, made possible by the munificent hundred thousand dollar
donation of the Hand of the Cause, Amelia Collins, signalizing the opening
of the second stage in the unfoldment of the mighty process set in motion
by the Author of the Faith.

A TRIPLE RESPONSIBILITY

This triple bounty vouchsafed the Community of the Most Great Name,
scattered over the face of the planet, calls for tremendous, immediate,
concerted exertion by the assembled believers in order adequately to
discharge this triple responsibility. First, redoubled consecration to the
pioneering task, particularly in the Pacific area emphasized in the
Tablets of the Divine Plan, raising thereby, ere adjournment of the
Conference, the number of territories opened to the Faith or assigned
pioneers for immediate settlement to above two hundred. Second, the
demonstration of increasing self-sacrifice through the inauguration of
Funds for the purchase of land for future Temples on the Asiatic continent
and in the Antipodes, in Ba_gh_dad, New Delhi and Sydney. I am
contributing three thousand pounds for the furtherance of these
meritorious enterprises. Third, earnest consultation by representatives of
the Persian and Iraqi National Assemblies, directly concerned with the
holy task, with the assembled Hands of the Cause on ways and means to
conduct a thorough investigation to ensure purchase of the holy places,
particularly the site of the Siyah-_Ch_al, the cradle of the Revelation to
the Author of the Faith, as well as the identification and transfer to
Baha'i cemeteries of the bodies of the relatives of the Bab and
Baha'u'llah, constituting vital objectives of the Ten-Year Plan.

I am ardently hoping, fervently supplicating that this epochal Conference,
setting th