most prodigious efforts exerted by the American
believers. A still more powerful display of its miraculous force can be
confidently anticipated, if those who have felt its impact in the past
arise to carry out, in the years that lie immediately ahead, the sublime
and twofold task of the redemption of mankind and the establishment of the
world sovereignty of Baha'u'llah.

Cablegram August 10, 1945

HEARTS UPLIFTED IN THANKSGIVING

Our hearts are uplifted in thanksgiving for complete cessation of the
prolonged, unprecedented world conflict. I hail the prospects of the
removal of the restrictions enabling American Baha'i Community to expedite
the preliminary measures required to launch the second stage of the Divine
Plan. I appeal focus attention upon the requirements of the all-important
Latin American work. The adequate fulfillment of this vital task preludes
the assumption of collective responsibility by triumphant community of the
spiritual enlightenment and ultimate redemption of sorely-tried,
war-ravaged European continent, destined to be associated with exploits
which must immortalize the second stage of the World Mission entrusted by
'Abdu'l-Baha to the apostles of His Father's Faith in the western world.
The opportunities of the present hour are infinitely precious, the time is
pressing, the call of the distressed, groping peoples of Europe pitiful,
insistent. The work still to be accomplished to consummate the mighty
enterprise undertaken in Latin America is considerable. The Almighty's
sustaining grace is assured, unfailing. I am praying from the depths of a
joyful, thankful heart for the outpouring of blessings no less remarkable
than the divine bounties vouchsafed unto the valiant prosecutors of the
Plan in the course of the opening phase of their World Mission.

Cablegram August 20, 1945

THE WORK OF REHABILITATION

The reports recently received from various sources, regarding the sad
conditions prevailing among the members of the sorely-stricken,
long-suffering Baha'i communities in Germany and Burma, are of such a
distressing nature as to merit the energetic, the immediate, and
collective intervention of their fellow-workers in lands which have
providentially been spared the horrors of invasion and all the evils and
miseries attendant upon it. Upon the American Baha'i community, in
particular, which throughout this prolonged and bloody conflict, has of
all its sister communities in