The American Baha'i Community, in this, the opening year of the second
phase of the World Spiritual Crusade upon which it has embarked, finds
itself standing on the threshold of the seventh decade of its existence.
It leaves behind it, as it enters the second decade of the second Baha'i
century, sixty years crowded with events and marked by exploits so
stirring and momentous that they stand unsurpassed in the annals of any
other national Baha'i community with the sole exception of its venerable
sister community in Baha'u'llah's native land.