rm that has afflicted
them since the inception of the Faith in their land.

The process of harmonious cooperation and the spirit of mutual
understanding, remarkably evident in the life of a newly resuscitated,
highly promising, spiritually enriched community must, particularly in its
relation with the local communities in Hamburg and Vienna, be steadily
fostered, however great the obstacles that may be encountered. The
education of the members of the community in the principles and essential
verities underlying the Covenants of Baha'u'llah and 'Abdu'l-Baha as well
as the Administrative Order of the Faith--the twin pillars sustaining the
spiritual life and the institutions of every organized Baha'i
community--must, at all costs, be vigorously pursued and systematically
intensified. The multiplication and consolidation of Baha'i administrative
institutions, in both zones under the jurisdiction of the elected
representatives of the community, and in the neighbouring territory of
Austria, must be given a fresh impetus through repeated exertions and
carefully devised measures. The initial steps, aiming at the incorporation
of the National Assembly and of every soundly grounded properly
functioning local assembly, should be promptly taken, as a prelude to the
establishment of the national and local Baha'i endowments for the benefit
of the entire community. The utmost effort should be exerted to hasten, on
the one hand, the completion of the restoration of the national
administrative Headquarters, and centralize, on the other, the national
activities and manifold agencies of the Faith in that newly-appointed
centre established in the heart of that country. Particular attention
should, moreover, be given to the vital city of Berlin, its needs, its
interests and future prospects. The teaching work, the cornerstone of the
Baha'i Edifice and the primary purpose of every Baha'i institution, so
emphatically stressed by 'Abdu'l-Baha in His Will, should, above all, be
reinvigorated and relentlessly expanded. A closer association through
correspondence, attendance at Summer Schools, participation at Teaching
Conferences and collaboration in publications should be carefully fostered
with the sister communities now rapidly emerging on the European
continent, in the British Isles, in the North and South American
continents, in Asia, Africa and Australasia.

To these immediate tasks, so vital, so sacred, a community, purged in the
fires o