of God, and their souls
be set aglow by the undying fire of His love."

Invested, among its sister communities in East and West, with the primacy
conferred upon it by 'Abdu'l-Baha's Divine Plan; armed with the mandatory
provisions of His momentous Tablets; equipped with the agencies of a
quarter-century-old Administrative Order, whose fabric it has reared and
consolidated; encouraged by the marvelous success achieved by its daughter
communities throughout the Americas, a success which has sealed the
triumph of the first stage of that Plan; launched on a campaign of vaster
dimensions, of superior merit, of weightier potentialities, than any it
has hitherto initiated, a campaign destined to multiply its spiritual
progeny in distant lands and amidst divers races, the community of the
Most Great Name in the North American continent must arise, as it has
never before in its history, and demonstrate anew its capacity to perform
such deeds as are worthy of its high calling. Its members, the executors
of 'Abdu'l-Baha's Plan, the champion-builders of Baha'u'llah's embryonic
Order, the torchbearers of a world-girdling civilization, must, in the
years immediately ahead, bestir themselves, and, as bidden by
'Abdu'l-Baha, "increase" their exertions "a thousandfold," lay bare
further vistas in the "range" of their "future achievements" and of their
"unspeakably glorious" mission, and hasten the day when, as prophesied by
Him, their community will "find itself securely established upon the
throne of an everlasting dominion," when "the whole earth" will be stirred
and shaken by the results of its "achievements" and "resound with the
praises of majesty and greatness," when America will "evolve into a center
from which waves of spiritual power will emanate, and the throne of the
Kingdom of God will, in the plenitude of its majesty and glory, be firmly
established."

In every state of the United States, in every province of the Dominion of
Canada, in every republic of Latin America, in each of the ten European
countries to which its inescapable responsibilities are insistently
calling it, this community, so blessed in the past, so promising at
present, so dazzling in its future destiny, must, if it would guard its
priceless birthright and enhance its heritage, forge ahead with equal
zeal, with unrelaxing vigilance, with indomitable courage, with tireless
energy, until the present stage of its mission is triumphantly concluded.