more widely and convincingly demonstrated. With every
successful effort to muster its young and scattered forces, to perfect its
methods, to extend the range of its operations, to deepen its spiritual
life and to scale loftier heights of individual heroism, there will, I
cannot but feel confident, be granted to this community a greater
opportunity to prove its worth, and a fuller measure of celestial strength
to enable it to reenact, on the soil of the United States and Canada and
throughout the entire Western Hemisphere, those stirring exploits that
have shed such lustre on the apostolic age of the Faith of Baha'u'llah.
Though much has thus far been achieved, yet the processes now set in
motion through the evolution of the Plan are still far too rudimentary to
permit even a faint glimpse of the brilliancy of the epoch in which
'Abdu'l-Baha's own Plan must come to fruition. Not ours to attempt, at the
present moment, a survey of the distant scene, or to seek to visualize its
glories, or to dwell on the consequences of the eventual attainment of an
as yet far-off goal. Ours is the solemn, the inescapable duty to labor
faithfully and unremittingly to insure that no opportunity is being
missed, that no avenues are left unexplored, that might, however
indirectly, contribute to the furtherance of those tasks that claim so
insistently our immediate attention. That those into whose hands this
dynamic Plan has been entrusted are aware of the essential character of
their obligations and will discharge worthily their duties, no one,
viewing the range and quality of their achievements, can entertain the
slightest doubt.

February 8, 1939

APPROACH OF FINAL ERUPTION

Fresh, ominous rumblings demonstrate the inevitability and foreshadow the
approach of the final eruption involving the dissolution of a lamentably
defective international order. The privileged community of American
believers forewarned, undismayed, spiritually equipped. Notwithstanding
the gravity of the times, they will pursue unswervingly the
divinely-chartered course, their attention undistracted, their objective
unobscured, their resolve unimpaired, their support undiminished, their
loyalty unsullied. The immediate obligation is to complete settlement of
Delaware, Utah, Manitoba, and Nova Scotia before termination of Baha'i
administrative year. Responsibility solemn, pressing, unavoidable.

Cablegram March 24, 1939

GRATITUDE TO PIONEERS