er display of acts of self-sacrifice, a
still more inspiring manifestation of solidarity, and evidences of a
grimmer determination, of a greater courage and perseverance in response
to the triple call of this present hour.

The vital needs of the most holy House of Worship reared in the service
and for the glory of the Most Great Name, though virtually met, still
require the last exertions to ensure its completion as the hour of its
Jubilee approaches. The Latin-American enterprise, initiated thirteen
years ago, and marking the initial collective undertaking launched by the
American Baha'i Community beyond the confines of the great republic of the
West, and under the mandate of 'Abdu'l-Baha's Divine Plan, still in a
state of emergency and rapidly advancing towards its initial fruition,
demands unrelaxing vigilance, and calls for still more strenuous exertions
and self-sacrifice on the part of those who have so enthusiastically
embarked upon it, who have so conscientiously and painstakingly shepherded
it along its destined course and throughout the early stages of its
unfoldment, and who are now, as a result of their ceaseless exertions,
witnessing the first efflorescence of their mammoth pioneer labors. The
construction of the superstructure of the Holy Sepulcher of the Blessed
Bab, now, at this anxious and urgent hour, superimposed on the manifold
responsibilities shouldered by members of the American Baha'i Community,
affording them the first historic opportunity of directly sustaining,
through their contributions, the most sacred enterprise ever undertaken in
the history of the Faith, the first and most holy edifice reared at its
World Center, and the initial international institution heralding the
establishment of the supreme legislative body at the World Administrative
Center, requires the immediate and sustained attention of the members of a
community whose destiny has been linked, ever since its inception, with
the various stages marking the rise and consolidation of this divinely
appointed, unspeakably holy enterprise.

AN HOUR LADEN WITH FATE

The hour is critical, laden with fate. Responsibilities numerous and
varied, as well as urgent and sacred, are crowding, in quick succession,
upon a community youthful and valorous in spirit, rich in experience,
triumphant in the past, sensible of its future obligations, keenly aware
of the sublimity of its world mission, inflexibly resolved to follow with
unf