magnificent prize of total success, to slip from its grasp,
and the fortunes of such a potentially powerful undertaking to be marred
by any feelings of impotence or exhaustion which might well, at the
eleventh hour, assail those who have for so long and in such a great
measure, expended their energies for the prosecution of so weighty and
far-reaching a Plan.

The required number of pioneers who must arise, while there is yet time,
and stop the dangerous breaches which a fate-laden Plan, now in the last
stages of its development, reveals to the eyes of its prosecutors must,
however costly the sacrifice, be instantly found, and rushed without delay
to the scene of action. The funds, which must enable these last minute
pioneers to adjust their affairs and settle down wherever most needed,
must, under no circumstances, and particularly on the part of the
well-to-do, be withheld, as the present critical situation moves towards
its climax.

Great and overpowering as these sacrifices may now appear, they will, when
viewed in their proper perspective, be adjudged as inconsiderable, and
pale into insignificance when balanced against the inestimable advantages
which must accrue to a community that has achieved total and complete
victory for a Plan so epoch-making in character, and so charged with
undreamt of potentialities. The sacrifices which this fateful hour calls
for, are by their very nature, individual; the loss or inconvenience they
entail are at most transitory in their effect, and might well be fully
compensated for in the days ahead, whereas the blessings that must
irresistibly flow out, as the result of the integral success of a
nation-wide, historically unprecedented Plan, will enrich and ennoble the
life of an entire community, exert an abiding influence on its fortunes,
and empower it to launch still mightier crusades in the course of
subsequent stages in its organic spiritual development. How bountiful,
moreover, will be the rewards which He who watches from on high the
varying fortunes of the Plan and presides over its destinies, must either
in this world or in the next--and it may well be in both--choose to confer
upon those, who, at the hour of the Plan's greatest need, will fly to its
succour, exhibit the rarest evidences of courage and heroism, and choose
to subordinate their personal interests to the immediate needs and future
glory of the community to which they belong.

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