The adoption of special measures by these same elected national
representatives, designed to hasten the emergence of an independent
National Spiritual Assembly in Austria, is yet another duty which calls
for urgent and earnest consideration on their part and one which, if
worthily performed, will lend a tremendous impetus to the progress of the
Faith in a country occupying so central a position in Europe, so rich in
its past history, and blessed by the footsteps of 'Abdu'l-Baha.

The splendid work accomplished by German pioneers in virgin territories in
both the North and South of Europe, auguring well for the accomplishment
of a similar mission in the Eastern territories forming part of their
alloted task under the Ten-Year Plan, must be jealously safeguarded and
continually reinforced, as it constitutes a prelude to the victories that
must needs be won, in the course of future Plans, on the eastern confines
of that continent and even as far afield as the heart of Asia.

Nor must the establishment of the projected Baha'i Publishing Trust be
delayed, as it constitutes one of vital objectives of the Crusade on which
the German Baha'i community has embarked.

No sacrifice can be deemed too great for the attainment of these shining
goals and the winning of such precious prizes. The members of these
closely knit communities must arise as never before, and brace themselves
for a still greater output of energy, and a still more convincing display
of those qualities that have distinguished their stewardship to the Faith
of Baha'u'llah, and prepare to enter victoriously upon the third phase of
the Ten-Year Plan during the concluding months of this current year.

The tragic sufferings afflicting their brethren in Baha'u'llah's native
land, involving a setback in the projects of this persecuted community for
the erection of its Mother Temple in Tihran, must reinforce their resolve
to speed the erection of a corresponding House of Worship in the heart of
Europe. The efforts of their national elected representatives, strenuous
as they have been in recent months, must be doubled, nay trebled, in order
to offset, in this particular and most important field, the inevitable and
deplorable delay in the accomplishment of so meritorious, so momentous and
historic a task.

Unperturbed by the clamour of inveterate, powerful and malicious
adversaries in the land of the birth of their Faith; undaunted by the
opposition which exponents of