Welcome pledge by delegates. Fervently supplicating Baha'u'llah's
sustaining grace. Urge intensification of efforts, rededication and
achievement of goals of Plan in order to discharge befittingly the sacred,
manifold, inescapable, urgent responsibilities confronting the entire
American Baha'i Community. Appeal for unprecedented increase in pioneers
on the home front and all continents of the globe, on which the
prosperity, security and destiny of the American believers must ultimately
rest.
[April 29, 1957]