t successive victories
proclaim the undiminished strength and exemplary valor of the rank and
file of the community whether administrators, teachers or pioneers in
three continents regarded as the latest links in the chain of
uninterrupted achievements performed by its members in the council, and
teaching field for over a quarter of a century. I recall on this joyous
occasion with pride, emotion, thankfulness, the resplendent record of
stewardship of this dearly loved, richly endowed, unflinchingly resolute
community, whose administrators have assumed the preponderating share in
perfecting the machinery of the Administrative Order, whose elected
representatives have raised the edifice and completed the exterior
ornamentation of the Mother Temple of the West, whose trail-blazers opened
an overwhelming majority of the ninety-one countries now included within
the pale of the Faith, whose pioneers established flourishing communities
in twenty republics of Latin America, whose benefactors extended in ample
measure assistance in various ways to their sorely pressed brethren in
distant fields, whose members scattered themselves to thirteen hundred
centers in every state of the American Union, every province of the
Dominion of Canada, whose firmest champion succeeded in winning royalty's
allegiance to the Message of Baha'u'llah, whose heroes and martyrs laid
down their lives in its service in fields as remote as Honolulu, Buenos
Aires, Sidney, Isfahan, whose vanguard pushed its outposts to the
antipodes on the farthest verge of the South American continent, to the
vicinity of the Arctic Circle, to the northern, southern, and western
fringes of the European continent, whose ambassadors are now convening, on
the soil of one of the newly won territories, its historic first
conference designed to consolidate the newly won prizes, whose spokesmen
are securing recognition of the institutions of Baha'u'llah's rising World
Order in the United Nations.

Appeal to members of the community so privileged, so loved, so valorous,
endowed with such potentialities to unitedly press forward however
afflictive the trials their countrymen may yet experience, however
grievous the tribulations the land of their heart's desire may yet suffer,
however oppressive an anxiety the temporary severance of external
communications with the World Center of their Faith may engender, however
onerous the tasks still to be accomplished, until every single obligati