Nor should reference be omitted in these pages to the surprisingly
numerous conferences and institutes which, in the course of the last
twelve months, have been organized by the enterprising, the indefatigable
and vigilant members of Baha'i communities in various parts of the world,
supplementing the multiple activities carried on with such splendid vigor
in the course of the prosecution of the Ten-Year Plan. A mere enumeration
of these institutes and conferences will serve to reveal their diversity
and scope, and demonstrate the earnestness with which their organizers and
participants are discharging their primary obligation to propagate their
Faith:
The first Southeast Asia Teaching Conference in Djakarta, Indonesia; the
first All-Taiwan Teaching Conference in Tainan; the Korean Summer and
Winter Conference in Kwangju; the Indo-China Teaching Conference in
Saigon; the Japanese National Teaching Conference in Kyoto; the first
American Indian Teaching Conference in Northern Arizona; the American
Indian Teaching Conference in Los Angeles, California; the Alaskan
Teaching Conference in Fairbanks; the Hawaii-wide Teaching Conference in
Honolulu; the Western Canada Summer Conference in Banff; the Maritime
Teaching Conference in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island; the Teaching
Conference in Beaulac, Canada; the French Teaching Conference in
Mentone-Garavan; the third Italian Teaching Conference in Rome; the third
Swiss Teaching Conference in Basel; the Teaching Conference in Romanshorn;
the Teaching Conference in Neuchatel; the Iberian Teaching Conferences in
Barcelona; the first Austrian Teaching Conference in Gosau; the Teaching
Conference in Frankfurt; the Regional Convention in Stuttgart; the
Teaching Conference in Stockholm; the Benelux Regional Teaching
Conferences in Brussels and in The Hague; the Nordisk Teaching Conference
in Moss, Norway; the Northwest Teaching Conferences in Liverpool,
Blackpool and Manchester; the Midlands Teaching Conference in Birmingham;
the Southeast Teaching Conferences in London and Reading; the Scottish
Teaching Conferences in Edinburgh and Glasgow; the Northern Ireland
Teaching Conference in Belfast; the Northeast Teaching Conference in
Leeds; the Southwest Teaching Conferences in Portcawl, Torquay and
Cardiff; the British Northern Isles Teaching Conference in Lerwick,
Shetland Islands; the South India Teaching Conference in Bangalore; the
Pakistan Teaching Conference in Karachi; the South Australian State
Teaching Conference in Adelaide; the New South Wales Regional Teaching
Conference in Sydney; the Australian Post-Convention Teaching Institute in
Sydney; the New Zealand Teaching Conference in Wellington; the New Zealand
Regional Teaching Conference in New Plymouth; the Regional Teaching
Conference in Hobart, Tasmania; the Canary Islands Teaching Conference in
Las Palmas; the first Colombian Teaching Conference in Bogota; the
Peruvian Teaching Conference in Lima; the first Mexican Teaching
Conference in Mexico City; the Cuban Teaching Conference in Havana; the
Haitian Teaching Conference in Port-au-Prince; the Honduran Teaching
Conference in Honduras; the Guatemalan Teaching Conference in Guatemala;
the Dominican Teaching Conference in Ciudad Trujillo; the Jamaican
Teaching Conference in Kingston; the El Salvador Teaching Conference in
Santa Ana; the Nicaraguan Teaching Conference in Managua; the Costa Rican
Teaching Conference in San Jose; the Panamanian Teaching Conference in
Panama City; the Annual Study Institute of Brazil in Rezende; the Teaching
Conferences of the British Cameroons in Mutengere, as well as a large
number of similar conferences and institutes too numerous to mention held
throughout the United States of America.
To these highly praiseworthy accomplishments, in which an increasing
number of the promoters of the Faith of Baha'u'llah, whether teachers or
administrators, have shared in recent years, must be added an even more
impressive list of enterprises, none of them specified as part of the
Ten-Year Plan, and which stalwart upholders of His Cause, driven by an
irresistible impulse to further enlarge its limits, multiply its assets,
consolidate its foundations, and noise abroad its fame, have initiated and
conducted at a steadily accelerated pace since the launching of the World
Spiritual Crusade.
Indeed the multiplicity, variety, scope, and significance of these
enterprises have impelled me to tabulate and record them for posterity on
a specially prepared map, designed to present graphically the achievements
supplementing the tasks already performed in pursuance of the provisions
of the Ten-Year Plan. A bare recital of these additional victories won, in
such rapid succession, over so vast a field, by the band of Baha'u'llah's
crusaders, will amply demonstrate the unquenchable enthusiasm, no less
than the inflexible resolve and boundless devotion, animating His
followers in the pursuit of their high calling.