better legal status for the German
Baha'i National Assembly, raising thereby the status of the Faith and
consolidating the foundations of its highest administrative agency in the
heart of the European continent.

The total success of the Plan, now demanding the concentrated attention of
the entire German Baha'i community, is indeed indispensable for the
adequate discharge of the still greater tasks that lie ahead of its
members, and which, in themselves, will constitute the prelude to the
unfoldment of the glorious Mission awaiting them, as soon as the present
obstacles are removed, in both Eastern Europe and the heart of the Asiatic
continent. The extent of their future undertakings in both continents;
their contribution to the Global Crusade to be launched throughout the
whole planet; their particular and, in many ways, unique, reinforcement of
the work, connected with future Baha'i research and scholarship, in view
of the characteristic qualities of painstaking thoroughness, scientific
exactitude and dispassionate criticism distinguishing the race to which
they belong,--these are too vast and complex to be assessed at the present
time.

They, no doubt, stand, emerging as they have done, from two successive
world ordeals that have served to purify, vitalize, and weld them
together, on the threshold of an era of glorious achievements, both at
home and abroad. Their present Plan is but the initial chapter in the
history of their collective achievements in the service of the Faith of
Baha'u'llah--a service, anticipated in such glowing terms, by the One,
through Whose creative power, this community was brought into being, Who
nursed it in its infancy, and Who, through His personal visit communicated
to it, in a direct and effective manner, the impulse destined to sustain
its growth, guide its steps and lead it to ultimate victory.

The participation of the Baha'i community, in both Germany and Austria,
individually as well as officially, in the forthcoming Stockholm
inter-continental Conference, to which I trust its members will contribute
a notable share, in view of the part they are destined to play in the
future awakening of the European Continent--will no doubt, launch them upon
the initial stage of their glorious Mission beyond the confines of their
respective countries. Theirs will be the two-fold and highly challenging
task of consolidating, steadily and rapidly, the administrative
foundations of the Structure w