This triple bounty vouchsafed the Community of the Most Great Name,
scattered over the face of the planet, calls for tremendous, immediate,
concerted exertion by the assembled believers in order adequately to
discharge this triple responsibility. First, redoubled consecration to the
pioneering task, particularly in the Pacific area emphasized in the
Tablets of the Divine Plan, raising thereby, ere adjournment of the
Conference, the number of territories opened to the Faith or assigned
pioneers for immediate settlement to above two hundred. Second, the
demonstration of increasing self-sacrifice through the inauguration of
Funds for the purchase of land for future Temples on the Asiatic continent
and in the Antipodes, in Ba_gh_dad, New Delhi and Sydney. I am
contributing three thousand pounds for the furtherance of these
meritorious enterprises. Third, earnest consultation by representatives of
the Persian and Iraqi National Assemblies, directly concerned with the
holy task, with the assembled Hands of the Cause on ways and means to
conduct a thorough investigation to ensure purchase of the holy places,
particularly the site of the Siyah-_Ch_al, the cradle of the Revelation to
the Author of the Faith, as well as the identification and transfer to
Baha'i cemeteries of the bodies of the relatives of the Bab and
Baha'u'llah, constituting vital objectives of the Ten-Year Plan.
I am ardently hoping, fervently supplicating that this epochal Conference,
setting the seal on the celebration of the second Baha'i Jubilee, may
contribute in an unprecedented degree through the character of its
deliberations, the solidity of its achievements, the scope of its
accomplishments, to the ultimate attainment of the shining goals of the
World Crusade, destined to culminate in the not far distant Most Great
Jubilee associated with the hundredth anniversary of the assumption by
Baha'u'llah of His prophetic office.
[7 October 1953]