cted to Iceland and
Greenland, as the two foremost objectives of this community in connection
with the work of consolidation assigned to its members. The meritorious
effort exerted so devotedly and patiently by its national elected
representatives for the purpose of obtaining official recognition by the
Civil Authorities for the Baha'i Marriage Certificate should be pursued
with the utmost diligence, vigilance and caution.

NEWLY-ESTABLISHED ISRAEL BRANCH OF NATIONAL ASSEMBLY

While the members of this valiant, this highly gifted, forward marching
and deeply consecrated community, and particularly its alert and zealous
national representatives, labour to attain these immediate goals, that
constitute the distinguishing features and the prime objectives of this
newly opened phase of the Crusade, the measures initiated recently in the
Holy Land to transfer eventually part of the international Baha'i
endowments on Mt. Carmel to the name of the newly-established Branch of
the Canadian National Spiritual Assembly will be steadily and
energetically pursued, as a mark of abiding appreciation of the
magnificence and exemplary achievements of this community in recent years
in the service of the Cause of Baha'u'llah.

A community, whose founder(36) has conferred upon it such splendid
benefits and whose dust now lies on the far-off shores of the South
American continent; which has been exalted by reason of the eminent
services which two other members(37), (38) of her family have rendered, in
the Holy Land, to the World Baha'i Community; which can, moreover boast of
the enduring and historic achievements of yet another Hand of the
Cause(39)--the third nominated from the ranks of its members; and which, in
the course of the past year, has set a further example of steadfastness
and devotion through the action of outstanding members(40) of its National
Assembly who have forsaken their homes to settle in the African
continent--such a community can well assert its capacity and determination
to consummate, within the allotted time, the laborious and mighty task it
has risen to shoulder.

The rapidity of its expansion, its sound development, the steadiness, the
single-mindedness, the tenacity, the enthusiasm, the unity and staunchness
of its members, augur well for the remarkable material and spiritual
progress which the nation to which it belongs must achieve in the years to
come, in accordance with the explicit promise enshrined i