I am deeply concerned at critical stage of task confronting North American
Teaching Committee, constituting at this juncture the paramount objective
of present Plan. Owing to urgent, overriding importance of Committee's
responsibility and to swiftly approaching time limit fixed for attainment
of the goal of one hundred seventy-five assemblies, emergency measures
carefully, promptly devised by national representatives of the community
and wholeheartedly supported by entire mass of the believers of the North
American continent, designed to safeguard the existing assemblies and
rapidly multiply their number, are imperative. The placing of further
contract for Temple, the reinforcement of basis of forthcoming Canadian
National Spiritual Assembly, the additional consolidation of the
institutions of the Faith in Latin America, the wider proclamation of its
message to the masses, even the multiplication of pioneers in the European
field, should be unhesitatingly subordinated to demands of the one
disconcerting aspect of an otherwise successfully conducted Plan. I
address this last-minute appeal to every single member of the community,
the champion warriors in the army of Baha'u'llah, which since launching
the Plan formulated by the Center of His Covenant never succumbed to
defeat nor was thwarted in its purpose, to arise resolutely, volunteer
instantly to fill the gap in the main defenses of the home front and
register total victory ere the termination of the second year of the
Second Seven Year Plan. Fervently praying for instantaneous, decisive
response.
[January 10, 1948]