s unreservedly
with its tenets, actively support its institutions, and join in forming
its initial Assemblies; through the persistent efforts, at a later stage,
of a considerable number of settlers who, joining forces with the original
pioneers and the native and newly enrolled believers, will provide the
necessary requisites for the constitution of properly functioning local
Assemblies; through the participation, as the situation on the continent
improves and the restrictions are relaxed, of these settlers, itinerant
teachers, native and isolated believers in conferences and organizations,
humanitarian, educational and otherwise designed to promote ends akin to
our own; through the liberal supply of funds to those who have forsaken
their homes and kindred in the new world, and journeyed so far afield in
the service of both their Faith and their fellowmen; through the exertion
of a special effort, as the present Plan approaches its close and the
general condition in most European countries improves, aimed at securing,
through the radio and the press, the widest possible publicity for the
Faith, its tenets and institutions, to serve as a means of reinforcing the
number of its avowed promoters and of consolidating the basis of its
evolving institutions--through these, and similar measures which the
American National Spiritual Assembly and its European Teaching Committee
may initiate and promote, the American Baha'i Community must demonstrate,
in this new field of their inter-continental enterprise, an initiative, a
tenacity, a resourcefulness, a self-sacrifice and an audacity comparable
to, and even exceeding, the qualities evinced by those who, ever since the
inception of the Faith in the West, have, haphazardly, single-handed and
with no organization to sustain them, labored with such fidelity and
devotion in various countries throughout that continent.

The first century of the Baha'i Era witnessed in darkest Persia the birth
of the Faith, as well as the establishment of the Administrative Order--the
Child of that Faith--an Order which, cradled in the heart of the North
American continent, has already succeeded, in less than a decade and in
direct consequence of the initial operation of 'Abdu'l-Baha's Plan, and
through the concerted, the sustained, and richly blessed efforts of the
champion builders of that Order, in spreading out its roots and in rearing
its institutions in no less than twenty Republics throughout the l