s in the love of Baha'u'llah:

It would be difficult indeed to adequately express the feelings of
irrepressible joy and exultation that flood my heart every time I pause to
contemplate the ceaseless evidences of the dynamic energy which animates
the stalwart pioneers of the World Order of Baha'u'llah in the execution
of the Plan committed to their charge. The signature of the contract, by
your elected national representatives, signalizing the opening of the
final phase of the greatest enterprise ever launched by the followers of
the Faith of Baha'u'llah in the West, no less than the extremely
heartening progress recorded in the successive reports of their National
Teaching Committee, attest, beyond the shadow of a doubt, the fidelity,
the vigor, and the thoroughness with which you are conducting the manifold
operations which the evolution of the Seven Year Plan must necessarily
involve. In both of its aspects, and in all its details, it is being
prosecuted with exemplary regularity and precision, with undiminished
efficiency, and commendable dispatch.

The resourcefulness which the national representatives of the American
believers have, in recent months, so strikingly demonstrated, as evidenced
by the successive measures they have adopted, has been matched by the
loyal, the unquestioning and generous support accorded them by all those
whom they represent, at every critical stage, and with every fresh
advance, in the discharge of their sacred duties. Such close interaction,
such complete cohesion, such continual harmony and fellowship between the
various agencies that contribute to the organic life, and constitute the
basic framework, of every properly functioning Baha'i community, is a
phenomenon which offers a striking contrast to the disruptive tendencies
which the discordant elements of present-day society so tragically
manifest. Whereas every apparent trial with which the unfathomable wisdom
of the Almighty deems it necessary to afflict His chosen community serves
only to demonstrate afresh its essential solidarity and to consolidate its
inward strength, each of the successive crises in the fortunes of a
decadent age exposes more convincingly than the one preceding it the
corrosive influences that are fast sapping the vitality and undermining
the basis of its declining institutions.

For such demonstrations of the interpositions of an ever-watchful
Providence they who stand identified with the Community of the Mos