GING HOUR

The long-predicted world-encircling conflagration, essential pre-requisite
to world unification, is inexorably moving to its appointed climax. Its
fires, first lit in the Far East, subsequently ravaging Europe and
enveloping Africa, now threaten devastation both in Near East and Far
West, respectively enshrining the World Center and the chief remaining
Citadel of the Faith of Baha'u'llah. The Divinely-appointed Plan must and
will likewise pursue undeflected its predestined course. Time is pressing.
The settlement of the two remaining Latin Republics, the sounder
consolidation through formation of firmly-knit groups in newly-opened
territories, the provision of adequate means for the ornamentation of last
six faces of first story of Temple, stand out as vital requirements of
approaching supremely challenging hour. My eyes and heart are anxiously,
longingly turned to the New World to witness the evidences of a new, still
more heroic phase of enterprise confidently entrusted to vigilant care of
the American believers by the ever-watchful, powerfully-sustaining Master.
I refuse to believe that a community so richly endowed, so greatly envied,
so repeatedly honored, will suffer the slightest relaxation of its
resolution to jeopardize the spiritual prizes painstakingly and deservedly
won throughout the States and Provinces of the Republics of the Western
Hemisphere.

Cablegram July 21, 1940

CHAOS AND REDEMPTION

Present world chaos, exhibiting the impetuosity, follies, rebelliousness
characteristic of humanity's adolescent stage of development, and
harbinger of the long-promised Golden Age of the maturity of the human
race, is relentlessly spreading and distressingly intensified. The
alternating victories and reverses, heralding parallel transition of
proscribed Cause of Baha'u'llah struggling towards emancipation, world
recognition and spiritual universal dominion, are simultaneously
multiplying. The recrudescence of the chronic persecution afflicting the
cradle of the Faith, the grave danger threatening the appropriated Temple
and disbanded centers in Turkistan and Caucasus, the repressive measures
successively choking the life and paralyzing the action of both the
long-standing and the newly-fledged communities of Central, Western and
South-Eastern Europe, the intermittent outbursts of religious fanaticism
directed against the North African Assemblies, and the aggravation of the
situation at the