I call upon the following Hands of the Cause to act as my representatives
at these thirteen historic conventions, that are to pave the way for the
erection, in four continents of the globe, of the pillars destined to
support, in varying measure, the Universal House of Justice, the final
unit in the construction of the edifice of the Administrative Order of the
Faith of Baha'u'llah: Valiyu'llah Varqa and Horace Holley at the South
American Conventions to be held in Buenos Aires and Lima respectively;
Corinne True at the Greater Antilles Convention to be held in
Port-au-Prince; _Dh_ikru'llah _Kh_adem at the Central American Convention
to be held in Panama City; Paul Haney at the Alaska Convention, to be held
in Anchorage; Hermann Grossmann and Adelbert Muehlschlegel at the
Scandinavian-Finnish Convention to be held in Stockholm; George Townshend
at the Benelux Convention to be held in Brussels; Ugo Giachery at the
Iberian Convention to be held in Madrid; Tarazu'llah Samandari at the
Arabian Convention to be held in Bahrayn; 'Ali-Akbar Furutan at the
Southeast Asian Convention, to be held in Jakarta; _Sh_u'a'u'llah 'Ala'i
at the Pakistani Convention to be held in Karachi; Jalal _Kh_azeh at the
Japanese Convention to be held in Tokyo; Clara Dunn at the New Zealand
Convention to be held in Auckland.
I urge, moreover, as many members as feasible of the Auxiliary Boards
appointed by the aforementioned Hands of the Cause, in the American, the
European, the Asiatic and the Australian continents, to attend these
momentous gatherings, at which the representatives of as many as forty-two
Baha'i Communities will assemble, and, through their active participation,
reinforce and widen the scope of the deliberations of the elected
delegates.
Furthermore, I cannot too strongly emphasize the vital necessity for all
the Baha'i groups, scattered throughout these forty-two countries, to
brace themselves, and make a supreme effort, during these intervening two
years, to achieve assembly status, ensuring thereby their participation in
the election of the delegates to these fate-laden conventions, and
contributing, through this act, to the broadening and strengthening of the
foundations of these projected pivotal institutions, destined to play so
prominent and vital a part in ushering in the last phase in the gradual
establishment of the structure of an Administrative Order that must needs
slowly evolve into the World Order of Baha'u'llah, and which in turn will
give birth, in the fullness of time, to a world spiritual civilization,
which posterity will hail as the fairest fruit of His Revelation.