Bahai Faith -- North America; Shoghi, Effendi, 1897-1957 -- Correspondence
Thirteenth, the completion of the landscaping of the grounds of the
Ma_sh_riqu’l-A_dh_kár in Wilmette.
Fourteenth, the raising to one hundred of the number of incorporated local
assemblies within the American Union.
Fifteenth, the raising to three hundred of the number of local spiritual
assemblies in that same country.
Sixteenth, the incorporation of spiritual assemblies in the leading cities
of Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Belgium, Holland, Luxembourg, Spain and
Portugal, as well as of the Spiritual Assemblies of Paris, of Helsingfors,
of Tokyo, of Suva and of Johannesburg.
Seventeenth, the quadrupling of the number of local spiritual assemblies
and the trebling of the number of localities in the aforementioned
countries.
Eighteenth, the translation of Bahá’í literature into ten languages in
Europe, (Basque, Estonian, Flemish, Lapp, Maltese, Piedmontese, Romani,
Romansch, Yiddish and Ziryen; ten in America: Aguaruna, Arawak, Blackfoot,
Cherokee, Iroquois, Lengua, Mataco, Maya, Mexican and Yahgan.
Nineteenth, the conversion to the Faith of members of the leading Indian
tribes.
Twentieth, the conversion to the Faith of representatives of the Basque
and Gypsy races.
Twenty-first, the establishment of summer schools in each of the
Scandinavian and Benelux countries, as well as those of the Iberian
Peninsula.
Twenty-second, the proclamation of the Faith through the press and radio
throughout the United States of America.
Twenty-third, the establishment of a Bahá’í Publishing Trust in Wilmette,
Illinois.
Twenty-fourth, the formation of an Asian teaching committee designed to
stimulate and coordinate the teaching activities initiated by the Plan.
May this community—the spiritual descendants of the dawn-breakers of the
Heroic Age of the Bahá’í Faith, the chief repository of the immortal
Tablets of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá’s Divine Plan, the foremost executors of the
Mandate issued by the Center of Bahá’u’lláh’s Covenant, the
champion-builders of a divinely conceived Administrative Order, the
standard-bearers of the all-conquering army of the Lord of Hosts, the
torchbearers of a future divinely inspired world civilization—arise, in
the course of the momentous decade separating the Great from the Most
Great Jubilee to secure, as befits its rank, the lion’s share in the
prosecution of a global crusade designed to diffuse the light of God’s
revelation over the surface of the entire planet.
[April 29, 1953]
INTENDING PIONEERS URGED TO SCATTER
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