recious hair arranged preserved by loving hands Greatest Holy Leaf
to rest beneath dome of Temple nobly raised by dearly beloved believers in
American continent.

Cablegram April 27, 1938

MARCHING TOWARD THEIR GOAL

Pregnant indeed are the years looming ahead of us all. The twin processes
of internal disintegration and external chaos are being accelerated and
every day are inexorably moving towards a climax. The rumblings that must
precede the eruption of those forces that must cause "the limbs of
humanity to quake" can already be heard. "The time of the end," "the
latter years," as foretold in the Scriptures, are at long last upon us.
The Pen of Baha'u'llah, the voice of 'Abdu'l-Baha, have time and again,
insistently and in terms unmistakable, warned an unheeding humanity of
impending disaster. The Community of the Most Great Name, the leaven that
must leaven the lump, the chosen remnant that must survive the rolling up
of the old, discredited, tottering order, and assist in the unfoldment of
a new one in its stead, is standing ready, alert, clear-visioned, and
resolute. The American believers, standard-bearers of this world-wide
community and torch-bearers of an as yet unborn civilization, have girt up
their loins, unfurled their banners and stepped into the arena of service.
Their Plan has been formulated. Their forces are mobilized. They are
steadfastly marching towards their goal. The hosts of the Abha Kingdom are
rushing forth, as promised, to direct their steps and reinforce their
power. Through their initial victories they have provided the impulse that
must now surge and, with relentless force sweep over their
sister-communities and eventually overpower the entire human race. The
generality of mankind, blind and enslaved, is wholly unaware of the
healing power with which this community has been endowed, nor can it as
yet suspect the role which this same community is destined to play in its
redemption. Fierce and manifold will be the assaults with which
governments, races, classes and religions, jealous of its rising prestige
and fearful of its consolidating strength, will seek to silence its voice
and sap its foundations. Unmoved by the relative obscurity that surrounds
it at the present time, and undaunted by the forces that will be arrayed
against it in the future, this community, I cannot but feel confident,
will, no matter how afflictive the agonies of a travailing age, pursue its
destiny, unde