r years" opportunities undreamt of will be born, and
circumstances unpredictable created, that will enable, nay impel, the
victorious prosecutors of 'Abdu'l-Baha's Plan, to add, through the part
they will play in the unrolling of the New World Order, fresh laurels to
the crown of their servitude to the threshold of Baha'u'llah.

Nor should any of the manifold opportunities, of a totally different
order, be allowed to pass unnoticed which the evolution of the Faith
itself, whether at its world center, or in the North American continent,
or even in the most outlying regions of the earth, must create, calling
once again upon the American believers to play a part, no less conspicuous
than the share they have previously had in their collective contributions
to the propagation of the Cause of Baha'u'llah. I can only for the moment
cite at random certain of these opportunities which stand out
preeminently, in any attempt to survey the possibilities of the future:
The election of the International House of Justice and its establishment
in the Holy Land, the spiritual and administrative center of the Baha'i
world, together with the formation of its auxiliary branches and
subsidiary institutions; the gradual erection of the various dependencies
of the first Ma_sh_riqu'l-A_dh_kar of the West, and the intricate issues
involving the establishment and the extension of the structural basis of
Baha'i community life; the codification and promulgation of the ordinances
of the Most Holy Book, necessitating the formation, in certain countries
of the East, of properly constituted and officially recognized courts of
Baha'i law; the building of the third Ma_sh_riqu'l-A_dh_kar of the Baha'i
world in the outskirts of the city of Tihran, to be followed by the rise
of a similar House of Worship in the Holy Land itself; the deliverance of
Baha'i communities from the fetters of religious orthodoxy in such Islamic
countries as Persia, 'Iraq, and Egypt, and the consequent recognition, by
the civil authorities in those states, of the independent status and
religious character of Baha'i National and Local Assemblies; the
precautionary and defensive measures to be devised, coordinated, and
carried out to counteract the full force of the inescapable attacks which
the organized efforts of ecclesiastical organizations of various
denominations will progressively launch and relentlessly pursue; and, last
but not least, the multitudinous issues that must be fac