DELEGATES INCREASED

Election of hundred seventy-one delegates for this year's and future
Conventions absolutely essential. Admitted expansion American community
vitally demands it. Appeal delegates unable attend in person exercise
conscientiously ballot right by mail. Increased participation by believers
in Convention proceedings reinforces authority and broadens basis body
national representatives and knits them closer to entire body electorate.
Advise share message American believers.

Cablegram November 21, 1937

ALL SHOULD ARISE

As I lift up my gaze beyond the strains and stresses which a struggling
Faith must necessarily experience, and view the wider scene which the
indomitable will of the American Baha'i community is steadily unfolding, I
can not but marvel at the range which the driving force of their ceaseless
labors has acquired and the heights which the sublimity of their faith has
attained. The outposts of a Faith, already persecuted in both Europe and
Asia, are in the American continent steadily advancing, the visible
symbols of its undoubted sovereignty are receiving fresh luster every day
and its manifold institutions are driving their roots deeper and deeper
into its soil. Blest and honored as none among its sister communities has
been in recent years, preserved through the inscrutable dispensations of
Divine Providence for a destiny which no mind can as yet imagine, such a
community cannot for a moment afford to be content with or rest on the
laurels it has so deservedly won. It must go on, continually go on,
exploring fresh fields, scaling nobler heights, laying firmer foundations,
shedding added splendor and achieving added renown in the service and for
the glory of the Cause of Baha'u'llah. The seven year plan which it has
sponsored and with which its destiny is so closely interwoven, must at all
costs be prosecuted with increasing force and added consecration. All
should arise and participate. Upon the measure of such a participation
will no doubt depend the welfare and progress of those distant communities
which are now battling for their emancipation. To such a priceless
privilege the inheritors of the shining grace of Baha'u'llah cannot surely
be indifferent. The American believers must gird up the loins of endeavor
and step into the arena of service with such heroism as shall astound the
entire Baha'i world. Let them be assured that my prayers will continue to
be offered on thei