Of all the objectives of this momentous Ten Year Plan, with which the
immediate destinies of this firmly-grounded, fully consecrated,
high-minded, spiritually quickened community are so closely linked, the
purchase of the site of the Mother Temple of the Dominion of Canada and
the settlement of pioneers in the thirteen virgin territories and islands,
eleven of which are situated in North America and two in the South Pacific
Ocean, may be regarded as the most important.
Prompt and effective measures must, no matter how great the sacrifice
involved, be taken to ensure that, ere the termination of the first two
years of the Plan, these two paramount objectives, which constitute the
opening phase of the Plan, will have been fully attained. The entire
community must arise, as it has never risen before, to meet the challenge
of the present hour. The time fixed for the achievement of the initial
victories of the Plan is admittedly brief. The prizes to be won in distant
fields, under the most trying circumstances, by the members of a community
so youthful, so circumscribed in number and resources, are so precious
that none of them can as yet even dimly imagine their transcendent glory.
On the homefront, as well as in the far-off islands of the Pacific Ocean,
in both the teaching and administrative fields, the Canadian Baha'i
Community must labour incessantly in anticipation of the fulfilment of the
inspiring prophecies made by the Centre of the Covenant Who, repeatedly
and in unmistakable language, promised to this community a glorious
future, and predicted both the material and spiritual advancement of the
nation of which it forms a part.