ion so momentous, so rich in promise,
must be taken is steadily and inexorably shrinking. The golden opportunity
which such a decision offers will never again recur. The issues hinging on
such a decision can neither be over-estimated nor visualised while the
fate of the First Plan embarked upon by the British Baha'i community still
hangs in the balance. The invisible hosts of the Kingdom are ready and
eager to rush forth to the assistance of such as will have the courage to
weigh the issues involved and to take the decision commensurate with these
issues. To such as take it, while there is yet time, the present
generation as well as those who will succeed it will be eternally
grateful, for theirs will have been the privilege of sealing on the one
hand, the fate of the First Historic Plan in British Baha'i annals, and on
the other of paving the way for the initiation of the successive
enterprises that must follow in its wake.

To reach such a decision, to face willingly and cheerfully its
consequences, will, above all, earn the good-pleasure and commendation of
the One Who, well nigh a hundred years ago, so gloriously made the supreme
sacrifice of laying down His life that the Cause for which the present
prosecutors of the Plan have so wholly dedicated themselves might live,
prosper and bear, in the fullness of time, its fairest fruit in both the
East and the West.

Dear friends! As the tale of the woes and trials He endured is called to
mind, during the months preceding the centenary of His martyrdom, and
destined to witness the conclusion of the Six Year Plan sponsored by the
British Baha'i community, a resolution, born of the love and admiration
which the memory of His heroic life and tragic death must evoke in every
Baha'i heart, should seize, and galvanise into action, the little band of
His lovers and followers, who, of their own accord, and at the dawn of the
second Baha'i century, have risen to launch the first collective
enterprise in British Baha'i history, and chosen to associate its
consummation with the centenary of the death of the martyr Prophet and
co-founder of their Faith. The centenary of the inception of His Mission
has witnessed the initiation of so praiseworthy, so vast and potent an
enterprise, extending its ramifications over the entire territory of the
British Isles. The observances, commemorating the hundredth anniversary of
the last act of His life, must, as pledged by its initiators, synchroni