n an ever-increasing
measure, their share, and participate in the world-wide propagation of the
Faith, the Australian and New Zealand believers must, for their part,
contribute worthily to the overseas teaching activities and
accomplishments of these communities. Already the Baha'i community in the
Great Republic of the West, the vanguard of the irresistibly marching army
of Baha'u'llah, has launched its twin crusades in Latin America and the
continent of Europe. Its collaborator in the execution of 'Abdu'l-Baha's
Divine Plan, the Canadian Baha'i community is busily engaged in
establishing the Faith beyond the Canadian mainland and further north in
the vast territory of Greenland. The Persian and Iraqi Baha'i communities
are, moreover, assiduously labouring in the adjacent territories of the
Arabian Peninsula and the Kingdom of Afghanistan, while their
sister-communities in the sub-continent of India are pushing the frontiers
of the Faith as far as Ceylon in the South and Siam and Indonesia to the
North and Southeast of that subcontinent. More recently the members of the
British Baha'i community, having brought to a successful conclusion their
first historic Plan, are devising the necessary measures for the launching
of a teaching enterprise in the heart of Africa, supplementing the work
already accomplished by the Egyptian Baha'i community in that continent.
Shortly, and at its appointed time, yet another national community,
already established in the heart of the European continent, will, as soon
as the present obstacles are removed, and its internal activities are
sufficiently consolidated, embark on a campaign, beyond the borders of its
homeland, that will carry the light of the Faith to the adjoining Balkan
territories, the Baltic states and, across the eastern frontiers of
Europe, into Asia.

In this stupendous and laudable collective enterprise, world-wide in its
range, divinely propelled, world-redemptive in its purpose, in which
National Baha'i communities, already sufficiently consolidated from
within, are participating, each in accordance with the provisions of its
own specific plan and constituting, in its proportions and potentialities,
the mightiest spiritual crusade launched since the inception of the
Formative Age of the Faith,--in such an enterprise the Baha'i communities
of Australia and New Zealand can neither afford to remain inactive or play
a negligible part. The situation they occupy, the unnumbere