rate the distinguishing features of its divinely appointed
institutions.

June 15, 1935

THE NATIONAL FUND

As the activities of the American Baha'i community expand, and its
world-wide prestige correspondingly increases, the institution of the
National Fund, the bedrock on which all other institutions must
necessarily rest and be established, acquires added importance, and should
be increasingly supported by the entire body of the believers, both in
their individual capacities, and through their collective efforts, whether
organized as groups or as local Assemblies. The supply of funds, in
support of the National Treasury, constitutes, at the present time, the
life-blood of those nascent institutions which you are laboring to erect.
Its importance cannot, surely, be overestimated. Untold blessings shall no
doubt crown every effort directed to that end. I am eagerly and
prayerfully awaiting the news of an unprecedented expansion in so vital an
organ of the administrative Order of the Faith.

July 29, 1935

THE NEW HOUR HAS STRUCK

Convey to assembled believers celebrating termination entire dome unit of
Ma_sh_riqu'l-A_dh_kar my heart-felt congratulations on triumphant progress
of their undeniably glorious enterprise. To prayers and testimonies
ascending to Throne of Baha'u'llah I am moved to add my fervent though
inadequate tribute to solidarity of so dazzling an achievement. The forces
which progressive revelation of this mighty symbol of our Faith is fast
releasing in heart of a sorely tried continent no one of this generation
can correctly appraise. The new hour has struck in history of our beloved
Cause, calling for nation-wide, systematic, sustained efforts in teaching
field, enabling thereby these forces to be directed into such channels as
shall redound to the glory of our Faith and to the honor of its
institutions.

Cablegram October 26, 1935

THIS IS TRULY PROVIDENTIAL

This new stage in the gradual unfoldment of the Formative Period of our
Faith into which we have just entered--the phase of concentrated teaching
activity--synchronizes with a period of deepening gloom, of universal
impotence, of ever-increasing destitution and wide-spread disillusionment
in the fortunes of a declining age. This is truly providential and its
significance and the opportunities it offers us should be fully
apprehended and utilized. Now that the administrative organs of a firmly
established