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developments in their activities. By fulfilling their other duty, they
will insure the smooth efficiency, facilitate the progress, and avert any
untoward incidents that might handicap the development of their common
enterprise. The maintenance of close contact and harmonious relationships
between the Inter-America Committee, entrusted with the immediate
responsibility of organizing such a far-reaching enterprise, and the
privileged pioneers who are actually executing that enterprise, and
extending its ramifications far and wide, as well as among these pioneers
themselves, would set, apart from its immediate advantages, a worthy and
inspiring example to generations still yet to be born who are to carry on,
with all its increasing complexities, the work which is being initiated at
present.

It would, no doubt, be of exceptional importance and value, particularly
in these times when the various restrictions imposed in those countries
make it difficult for a considerable number of Baha'i pioneers to
establish their residence and earn their livelihood in those states, if
certain ones among the believers, whose income, however slender, provides
them with the means of an independent existence, would so arrange their
affairs as to be able to reside indefinitely in those countries. The
sacrifices involved, the courage, faith, and perseverance it demands, are
no doubt very great. Their value, however, can never be properly assessed
at the present time, and the limitless reward which they who demonstrate
them will receive can never be adequately depicted. "They that have
forsaken their country," is Baha'u'llah's own testimony, "for the purpose
of teaching Our Cause--these shall the Faithful Spirit strengthen through
its power.... By My life! No act, however great, can compare with it,
except such deeds as have been ordained by God, the All-Powerful, the Most
Mighty. Such a service is indeed the prince of all goodly deeds, and the
ornament of every goodly act." Such a reward, it should be noted, is not
to be regarded as purely an abstract blessing confined to the future life,
but also as a tangible benefit which such courage, faith and perseverance
can alone confer in this material world. The solid achievements, spiritual
as well as administrative, which in the far-away continent of Australasia,
and more recently in Bulgaria, representative believers from both Canada
and the United States have accomplished, proclaim in ter