a few isolated believers are now making for the awakening of the
nations of Latin America to the Call of Baha'u'llah. Not until this second
phase of the teaching campaign, under the Seven Year Plan, has been
entered can the campaign be regarded as fully launched, or the Plan itself
as having attained the most decisive stage in its evolution. So powerful
will be the effusions of Divine grace that will be poured forth upon a
valiant community that has already in the administrative sphere erected,
in all the glory of its exterior ornamentation, its chief Edifice, and in
the teaching field raised aloft, in every state and province, in the North
American continent the banner of its Faith--so great will be these
effusions that its members will find themselves overpowered by the
evidences of their regenerative power.

The Inter-America Committee must, at such a stage, nay even before it is
entered, rise to the level of its opportunities, and display a vigor, a
consecration, and enterprise as will be commensurate with the
responsibilities it has shouldered. It should not, for a moment, be
forgotten that Central and Southern America embrace no less than twenty
independent nations, constituting approximately one-third of the entire
number of the world's sovereign states, and are destined to play an
increasingly important part in the shaping of the world's future destiny.
With the world contracting into a neighborhood, and the fortunes of its
races, nations and peoples becoming inextricably interwoven, the
remoteness of these states of the Western Hemisphere is vanishing, and the
latent possibilities in each of them are becoming increasingly apparent.

When this second stage in the progressive unfoldment of teaching
activities and enterprises, under the Seven Year Plan, is reached, and the
machinery required for its prosecution begins to operate, the American
believers, the stout-hearted pioneers of this mighty movement, must,
guided by the unfailing light of Baha'u'llah, and in strict accordance
with the Plan laid out by 'Abdu'l-Baha, and acting under the direction of
their National Spiritual Assembly, and assured of the aid of the
Inter-America Committee, launch an offensive against the powers of
darkness, of corruption, and of ignorance, an offensive that must extend
to the uttermost end of the Southern continent, and embrace within its
scope each of the twenty nations that compose it.

Let some, at this very moment, gird up t