isphere.

So great a triumph, crowning so much patient and painstaking labour, won
at the hour when the Baha'i World Spiritual Crusade is entering the second
year of the third phase in its irresistible unfoldment, must be celebrated
through the initiation of a subsidiary Six-Year Plan on the part of the
newly-formed Alaskan National Spiritual Assembly, for the purpose of
speedily increasing the number of the followers of the Faith; of
multiplying its Centres; of adding to its existing Local Spiritual
Assemblies; of inaugurating a National Baha'i Fund; of establishing a
Summer School; of initiating local Baha'i endowments; of incorporating the
newly-emerged National Spiritual Assembly as well as all firmly grounded
local spiritual assemblies; of obtaining recognition for the Baha'i
Marriage Certificate, as well as the Holy Days on which work is forbidden;
of stimulating the conversion of both the Eskimos and American Indians,
and of purchasing a plot of land to serve as the site for the future
Ma_sh_riqu'l-A_dh_kar of Alaska.

I appeal to the members of the American National Spiritual Assembly to
persevere in their highly laudable endeavours on behalf of a Community so
small yet so valiant and promising, and to ensure by every means in their
power the steady development and consolidation of the institutions of an
Order to whose rise and establishment they have so conspicuously
contributed.

May the process now set in motion gather momentum in the years lying
ahead, through a liberal effusion of the grace of Baha'u'llah, and may
those whose privilege it is to stimulate its development, be guided in
every step they take, and fulfill every desire they cherish for its
ultimate consummation.

Shoghi

(38) May 16, 1957

(38) May 16, 1957

To the National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of Alaska

Dear Baha'i Friends:

Your loving letter of May 5th has been received by the beloved Guardian,
and he has directed me to acknowledge it on his behalf.

The contribution made by your new Assembly to the International Fund is
greatly appreciated. Receipt is enclosed.

It is fitting that one of your first actions should be the dispatch of
this remittance, as it links your new spiritual body directly with the
work being done at the World Center of the Faith.

The Guardian is well pleased with the diligent services of all the Alaska
friends, reaching the present goal of a National Assembly. May the friends
now ari