can National Assembly designed to proclaim
the Faith to the masses through public conferences, press and radio.

Such remarkable multiplication of dynamic institutions, such thrilling
deployment of world-regenerating forces, North, South, East and West,
endow the preeminent goal of the Second Seven Year Plan in Europe with
extraordinary urgency and peculiar significance. I am impelled to appeal
to all American believers possessing independent means to arise and
supplement the course of the second year of the Second Seven Year Plan
through personal participation or appointment of deputies, the superb
exertions of the heroic vanguard of the hosts destined, through successive
decades, to achieve the spiritual conquest of the continent unconquered by
Islam, rightly regarded as the mother of Christendom, the fountainhead of
American culture, the mainspring of western civilization, and the
recipient of the unique honor of two successive visits to its shores by
the Center of Baha'u'llah's Covenant.

[April 28, 1947]

NSA MUST CONTROL CREDENTIALS OF FOREIGNERS

Owing to arrival of disloyal so-called Baha'is your Assembly's control of
credentials should be strictly exercised, otherwise corruptive influences
will spread and injure the magnificent services being achieved by the
American Baha'i Community.

[Circa June 1947]

THE CHALLENGING REQUIREMENTS OF THE PRESENT HOUR

The opening years of the second century of the Baha'i Era have
synchronized with the termination of the first epoch of the Formative Age
of the Baha'i Dispensation, a Dispensation which posterity will recognize
as the most glorious and momentous in the greatest cycle in the world's
religious history.

The first seventy-seven years of the preceding century, constituting the
Apostolic and Heroic Age of our Faith, fell into three distinct epochs, of
nine, of thirty-nine and of twenty-nine years' duration, associated
respectively with the Babi Dispensation and the ministries of Baha'u'llah
and of 'Abdu'l-Baha. This Primitive Age of the Baha'i Era, unapproached in
spiritual fecundity by any period associated with the mission of the
Founder of any previous Dispensation, was impregnated, from its inception
to its termination, with the creative energies generated through the
advent of two independent Manifestations and the establishment of a
Covenant unique in the spiritual annals of mankind.

The last twenty-three years of that same centur