stralasia, to over forty in Germany and
Austria, over sixty in the Dominion of Canada, over eighty in the Indian
subcontinent and Burma, over one hundred in Latin America, over seven
hundred in Persia and to over twelve hundred in the United States of
America.

The value of international Baha'i endowments in the Holy Land and the
Jordan Valley is estimated at over six hundred thousand pounds. National
Baha'i endowments on the North American continent are valued at over two
million dollars. The area of land dedicated to the Ma_sh_riqu'l-A_dh_kar
in Persia is approximately four million square meters. The value of the
national Haziratu'l-Quds in the capitals of India and Persia respectively
is six hundred thousand rupees and fifty thousand pounds. The area of land
dedicated to the first Ma_sh_riqu'l-A_dh_kar in South America is ninety
thousand square meters. The number of pieces of Baha'i literature sold and
distributed in the course of one year in North America is over eighty
thousand pieces. The record of the number of visitors to the
Ma_sh_riqu'l-A_dh_kar in America in one year is over seventeen thousand
and the total number of visitors since its erection is over one quarter of
a million. The number of states in the American Union formally recognizing
Baha'i marriage certificates is now eight. The number of national
assemblies functioning in the Baha'i world is raised to nine through the
formation of the first Canadian National Assembly, to be shortly
reinforced through the constitution of two additional assemblies in South
and Central America and the West Indies.

The second seven-year, the six-year, the four and one-half year, the
six-year, the three-year, the five-year and forty-five month plans
respectively launched by the American, British, Indian, Australasian,
Iraqi, Canadian, and Persian National Spiritual Assemblies, some
culminating at the first Centennial of the birth of Baha'u'llah's mission,
others the Hundredth Anniversary of the Bab's Martyrdom, are aiming at the
establishment of three national assemblies in Canada and Latin America,
the completion of the interior ornamentation of the Mother Temple of the
West, the formation of spiritual assemblies in ten sovereign states of the
European continent, the constitution of nineteen assemblies in the British
Isles, doubling the number of assemblies in India, Pakistan and Burma, the
reconstitution of the dissolved assemblies and the establishment of
ninety-five