n full resplendency
in its crystal globe in Adrianople, whose rays warmed and illuminated the
fringes of the American, European, Australian continents through the
tender ministerings of the Center of the Covenant, whose radiance is now
overspreading the surface of the globe during the present Formative Age,
whose full splendor is destined in the course of future milleniums to
suffuse the entire planet.

Already the crushing of this God-imbued kernel upon the anvil of adversity
has ignited the first sparks of the Holy Fire latent within it through the
emergence of the firmly knit world-encompassing community constituting no
less than twenty-five hundred centers established throughout a hundred
countries representing over thirty races and extending as far north as the
Arctic Circle and as far south as the Straits of Magallanes, equipped with
literature translated into sixty languages and possessing endowments
nearing ten million dollars, enriched through the erection of two Houses
of Worship in the heart of the Asiatic and North American continents and
the stately mausoleum reared in its World Center, consolidated through the
incorporation of over a hundred of its national and local assemblies and
reinforced through the proclamation of its independence in the East, its
recognition in the West, eulogized by royalty, buttressed by nine pillars
sustaining the future structure of its supreme administrative council,
energized through the simultaneous prosecution of specific plans conducted
under the aegis of its national councils designed to enlarge the limits
and extend the ramifications and consolidate the foundations of its
divinely appointed Administrative Order over the surface of the entire
planet.

I appeal on this solemn occasion, rendered doubly sacred through the
approaching hundredth anniversary of the most devastating holocaust in the
annals of the Faith, at this anxious hour in the fortunes of this
travailing age, to the entire body of the American believers, the
privileged occupants and stout-hearted defenders of the foremost citadel
of the Faith, to rededicate themselves and resolve, no matter how great
the perils confronting their sister communities on the European, Asiatic,
African and Australian continents, however somber the situation facing
both the cradle of the Faith and its World Center, however grievous the
vicissitudes they themselves may eventually suffer, to hold aloft
unflinchingly the torch of the