tained, centrally
directed, systematically organized, efficiently conducted. Upon alacrity,
tenacity, fearlessness of present prosecutors of the unfolding mission
depend speedy and fullest revelation, in the First and Second Centuries,
of the potentialities of the birthright conferred upon American believers.
Convey to pioneers in North, Middle and South America my eagerness to
maintain with each direct, personal contact. Assure Teaching and
Inter-America Committees my delight at successive testimonies of
believers' glowing spirit reflected in Minutes, letters and reports
recently received. Entreat every section of community to labor
unremittingly until every nation in Western Hemisphere is illumined by
rays and woven into fabric of Baha'u'llah's triumphant Administrative
Order.

Cablegram May 28, 1939

FULFIL THE REQUIREMENTS

The readiness of your Assembly, as expressed in your recently cabled
message, to transfer the National Baha'i Secretariat to the vicinity of
the Temple in Wilmette has evoked within me the deepest feelings of
thankfulness and joy. Your historic decision, so wise and timely, so
surprising in its suddenness, so far-reaching in its consequences, is one
that I cannot but heartily and unreservedly applaud. To each one of your
brethren in the Faith, throughout the United States and Canada, who are
witnessing, from day to day and at an ever-hastening speed, the
approaching completion of their National House of Worship, the great
Mother Temple of the West, your resolution to establish within its
hallowed precincts and in the heart of the North American continent the
Administrative Seat of their beloved Faith cannot but denote henceforward
a closer association, a more constant communion, and a higher degree of
coordination between the two primary agencies providentially ordained for
the enrichment of their spiritual life and for the conduct and regulation
of their administrative affairs. To the far-flung Baha'i communities of
East and West, most of which are being increasingly proscribed and
ill-treated, and none of which can claim to have had a share of the dual
blessings which a specially designed and constructed House of Worship and
a fully and efficiently functioning Administrative Order invariably
confer, the concentration in a single locality of what will come to be
regarded as the fountain-head of the community's spiritual life and what
is already recognized as the mainspring of the ad