The opening of the Sovereign states of Laos and of Cambodia and of the
islands of Trinidad, of Corisco, of Fernando-Po, of Pemba and of Mafia;
the acquisition of sites for the construction of the future Mother-Temples
of Argentina, of Brazil and of Libya; the sum recently allocated for the
purchase of a site for the erection of the first Ma_sh_riqu'l-A_dh_kar of
the British Isles; the launching of the twin far-reaching enterprises
designed to culminate in the establishment of the Ma_sh_riqu'l-A_dh_kars
of Africa and of Australasia; the founding of Baha'i Schools in the New
Hebrides Islands, in Mentawai Islands and in the Gilbert and Ellice
Islands; the establishment of Baha'i burial grounds in Libya, Burma and
Tanganyika; the formulation of supplementary plans by the newly emerged
regional spiritual assemblies in Africa, and by the Baha'i communities of
the Seychelles and the Sudan; the acquisition of land for the Baha'i
summer schools of Egypt, of 'Iraq and of Chile; the establishment of
Baha'i endowments in the Aleutian Islands, in Swaziland, in Mentawai
Islands, in Spanish Morocco, in Basutoland and in Liberia; the acquisition
of local Haziratu'l-Quds in Gambia, in the Aleutian Islands, in Uganda, in
Spanish Morocco, in the British Cameroons, in Algeria and in French
Morocco; the translation of Baha'i literature into thirty-one African,
seven American Indian, and twenty-eight miscellaneous languages; the
purchase of Baha'i historic sites in the City of Adrianople; the founding
of an Indian Cultural Institute in Chichicastenango, Guatemala; the
transfer of the remains of the Bab's infant son from a mosque in _Sh_iraz
to the Baha'i burial ground in that city--these proclaim, in no uncertain
terms, the splendid initiative and the dynamic power of the faith of the
bearers of the Gospel of the New Day, as well as their unyielding
determination to exceed, by every means in their power, the bounds of
their prescribed duties and responsibilities assumed under the Ten-Year
Plan, and to enhance, through every channel open to them, and over as wide
a range as their circumstances permit, their share of service in the
collective task now being prosecuted with such exemplary heroism, on the
whole surface of the planet, for the world-wide triumph of the Cause of
Baha'u'llah and the ultimate redemption of all mankind.