bility of their character, the rigor of
their discipline, the sanctity of their morals, and the unique example of
their community life, they can and indeed must in a world polluted with
its incurable corruptions, paralyzed by its haunting fears, torn by its
devastating hatreds, and languishing under the weight of its appalling
miseries demonstrate the validity of their claim to be regarded as the
sole repository of that grace upon whose operation must depend the
complete deliverance, the fundamental reorganization and the supreme
felicity of all mankind.

Though the obstacles confronting the followers of Baha'u'llah in the
American continent in their efforts to completely emancipate their
fellow-Baha'is on the one hand, and to speedily rehabilitate the fortunes
of their fellow-men on the other, be in the main unsurmountable, such
impediments cannot as yet be said to exist that can frustrate their
efforts to fully discharge the second duty now incumbent upon them in the
inter-continental sphere of Baha'i teaching. The field, in all its
vastness and fertility, is wide open and near at hand. The harvest is
ripe. The hour is over-due. The signal has been given. The spiritual
forces, mysteriously released, are already operating with increasing
momentum, unchallenged and unchecked. Victory, speedy and unquestioned, is
assured to whosoever will arise and respond to this second, this urgent
and vital call. In this field, as in no other, the American believers can
most easily evince the full force of their latent energies, can exercise
in their plentitude their conspicuous talents, and can rise to the highest
level of their God-given opportunities.

Fired by their zeal, their love for and faith in Baha'u'llah; armed with
that Holy Charter, wherein 'Abdu'l-Baha's mandate investing them with
their world mission is inscribed; piloted through the instrumentality of
those agencies which a divine, a smoothly functioning Administrative Order
has providentially placed at their disposal; disciplined and invigorated
by those immutable verities, spiritual principles and administrative
regulations that distinguish their religious beliefs, govern their
individual conduct and regulate their community life; aspiring to emulate
the example of those heroes and martyrs, the narrative of whose exploits
they have admired and pondered, it behooves all members of the American
Baha'i community to gird themselves as never before to the task of
befitti