Welcome Assembly's high resolve to insure uninterrupted Temple
construction. Deeply moved and thankful for continued evidence of the
inflexible determination with which the rank and file of the
clear-sighted, high-minded, divinely sustained American Baha'i Community,
its representatives, national, local and regional, its pioneers at home
and overseas, discharge in distant fields, despite the smallness of their
numbers and their limited resources, tasks of such vast dimensions, of so
diversified a character, of such great moment, at so significant a stage
in the declining fortunes of an imperiled society. I feel convinced that
unflinching maintenance of so exalted a standard of stewardship at the
threshold of Baha'u'llah must release in still greater measure the
outpouring of His grace so essential and befitting the consummation of a
Divine Plan deriving its authority from the pen of the Center of His
Covenant and propelled by agencies created through the generative
influence of His Will and Testament.
[September 14, 1948]