I fervently hope and pray that the year into which we have just entered
may be signalized by fresh conquests and unprecedented triumphs in the
teaching field within the United States and beyond its confines. A systematic,
carefully conceived, and well-established plan should be devised, rigorously
pursued and continuously extended. Initiated by the National representatives
of the American believers, the vanguard and standard-bearers of the
radiant army of Bahá'u'lláh, this plan should receive the wholehearted, the
sustained and ever-increasing support, both moral and financial, of the
entire body of His followers in that continent. Its supreme immediate
objective should be the permanent establishment of at least one center in
every state of the American Republic and in every Republic of the American
continent not yet enlisted under the banner of His Faith. Its ramifications
should gradually be extended to the European continent, and its scope
should be made to include those countries, such as the Baltic States, Poland,
Greece, Spain and Portugal, where no avowed believer has established any
definite residence. The field is immense, the task gigantic, the privilege
immeasurably precious. Time is short, and the obligation sacred, paramount
and urgent. The American community must muster all its force, concentrate
its resources, summon to its aid all the faith, the determination and
energies of which it is capable, and set out, single-minded and undaunted,
to attain still greater heights in its mighty exertions for the Cause of
Bahá'u'lláh.
May 30, 1936