I cannot allow this communication to be sent without adding a few
words in person and stress afresh the significance of the undertaking in
which the entire Bahá'í community has embarked. The promulgation of the
Divine Plan, unveiled by our departed Master in the darkest days of one of
the severest ordeals which humanity has ever experienced, is the key which
Providence has placed in the hands of the American believers whereby to
unlock the doors leading them to fulfil their unimaginably glorious Destiny.
As the proclamation of the Message reverberates throughout the land, as its
resistless march gathers momentum, as the field of its operation widens,
and the numbers of its upholders and champions multiply, its potentialities
will correspondingly unfold, exerting a most beneficent influence not only
on every community throughout the Bahá'í world, but on the immediate
fortunes of a travailing society. The repercussions of this campaign are
already apparent in Europe, India, Egypt, Iraq and even among the sore-tried
communities in Persia and Russia. The Faith of God is gaining in
stature, effectiveness and power. Not until, however, the great enterprise
which you are now conducting runs its full course and attains its final
objective, at its appointed time, can its world-encompassing benefits be
fully apprehended or revealed. The perseverance of the American believers
will, no doubt, insure the ultimate realization of these benefits.
November 14, 1936