der. On the northern portion of that same hemisphere the stage is
already set for the impending emergence of an institution which, however
circumscribed its basis, must ultimately, directly participate in the
measures preliminary to the constitution of the Universal House of
Justice.

A community now in the process of marshalling and directing, in such vast
territories, in such outlying regions, amidst such a diversity of peoples,
at so precarious a stage in the fortunes of mankind, forces of such
incalculable potency, to serve purposes so meritorious and lofty, cannot
afford to falter for a moment or retrace its steps on the path it now
travels. Its commitments, so vast, so challenging, so rich in their
potentialities, in the North American continent, must, whatever betide it,
be carried out, in their entirety and without the slightest reservation or
hesitation. The pledge to multiply the local administrative institutions,
throughout the length and breadth of this continent must be honored, and
the placing of the contract for the interior ornamentation of the holiest
House of Worship ever to be erected to the glory of Baha'u'llah expedited.
Above all a prodigious effort, nationwide, sustained and wholly
unprecedented in the annals of a richly endowed and spiritually blessed
community, aiming at the immediate increase of the financial resources
required for the effective prosecution of its manifold and pressing tasks,
is required.

TRIPLE CAMPAIGN OF CRITICAL IMPORTANCE

The triple campaign, conducted in two hemispheres, comprising within the
scope of its operation the entire territory of the North American
republic, the Dominion of Canada, twenty republics of Latin America, and
no less than ten sovereign states of the European continent, is indeed of
critical importance. Every phase of this threefold crusade, undertaken at
the dawn of the second Baha'i century by the executors of 'Abdu'l-Baha's
Will and the custodians of His Plan, must be accorded its due measure of
consideration and its needs simultaneously and vigorously fulfilled. The
allurements of the glorious adventure in the Latin American field, the
glittering prizes already won and the new ones within reach, must, at no
time, obscure the issues, or retard the task confronting the prosecutors
of the Plan in their homeland, or allow the interests of its assemblies,
for the most part new and struggling, to be either neglected or forgotten.
Nor must the