Heart thrilled with pride at message announcing the approaching completion
of the ornamentation of seven faces of Mashriqu'l-Adhkár, proclaiming
an intensification of North American teaching campaign, and revealing
the adamantine resolution of the Temple builders and stalwart crusaders,
in face of the perfidy, ingratitude and opposition of the enemies both within
and without the Holy Faith. As the fury and destructiveness of the tremendous
world ordeal attains its most intensive pitch, so the Mission conferred
twenty years ago by `Abdu'l-Bahá's sacred Will on the worldwide,
indivisible and incorruptible body of His followers unfolds its fullest
potentialities. Securely abiding and confidently battling within the
impregnable structure which that Will has divinely established, the dwellers in
the ark of the divine Covenant the world over watch with awe, pride and delight
the evidences of the mounting momentum of the eternal process of integration
and disintegration hurrying the Faith along its predestined course. The
royal adversary, personally responsible for the recrudescence of persecution
closing all Bahá'í schools in Bahá'u'lláh's native land, has been humbled to
the dust. The sufferings endured by the builders of the first
Mashriqu'l-Adhkár are being avenged. The cornerstone of the National
Administrative Headquarters of the Egyptian Bahá'í community has been
ceremoniously laid. The first officially recognized Bahá'í cemetery is ready
to receive the precious remains of the illustrious Abu'l-Fadl and the immortal
Lua. The Haziratu'l-Quds in Baghdád has been extended and is nearing
completion. The property dedicated as first Administrative Center of the
Syrian Bahá'ís has been purchased. A group of families of Persian believers,
Muslim, Jewish, Zoroastrian in origin, afire with the example set by American
pioneers, are settling the adjoining territories of Hijaz, Yemen, Afghanistan,
Baluchistan and Bahrein Island. The spiritual competition galvanizing the
organized followers of Bahá'u'lláh in East and West waxes keener as first
Bahá'í century speeds to its close. With bowed head, exultant spirit and
thankful heart I acclaim these recurrent, increasingly compelling
manifestations of the solidarity, loyalty and unquenchable spirit animating,
throughout five continents, the community of the followers of the Most Great
Name.
Cablegram November 22, 1941