Plan
destined to reveal the full measure of its potentialities, not only
throughout the successive epochs of the Formative Age of the Faith, but in
the course of the vast reaches of time stretching into the Golden, the
last Age of the Baha'i Dispensation.

A LASTING INFLUENCE ON AMERICAN COMMUNITY AND NATION

This decade-long global Crusade must mark a veritable turning point in
American Baha'i history. It must prove itself to be, as it develops, a
force so pervasive and revolutionary in its character as to leave a
lasting imprint not only on the destinies of the American Baha'i Community
but on the fortunes of the American nation as well. It must, even as a
baptismal fire, so purge its members from self as to enable them to scale
heights never as yet attained. It must, in its initial stages, witness a
dispersal, combined with a consecration, reminiscent of the dawn of the
Heroic Age in Baha'u'llah's native land. It must, as it gathers momentum,
awaken the select and gather the spiritually hungry amongst the peoples of
the world, as well as create an awareness of the Faith not only among the
political leaders of present-day society but also among the thoughtful,
the erudite in other spheres of human activity. It must, as it approaches
its climax, carry the torch of the Faith to regions so remote, so
backward, so inhospitable that neither the light of Christianity or Islam
has, after the revolution of centuries, as yet penetrated. It must, as it
approaches its conclusion, pave the way for the laying, on an unassailable
foundation, of the structural basis of an Administrative Order whose
fabric must, in the course of successive crusades, be laboriously erected
throughout the entire globe and which must assemble beneath its sheltering
shadow peoples of every race, tongue, creed, color and nation.

Seconded by the neighboring fully fledged Canadian Baha'i Community
flourishing beyond the northern frontier of its homeland; supported by the
newly emerged Latin American communities established in the Antilles and
in each of the central and southern republics of the Western Hemisphere;
ably aided by its sister community vigorously functioning in the heart of
a far-flung empire, and destined to lend its inestimable assistance in the
spiritual conquest of the numerous and widely scattered dependencies of
the British Crown; reinforced by the oldest and youngest national Baha'i
communities on the European mainland which