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FIFTH YEAR OF PLAN MESSAGE TO 1941 CONVENTION 110 |
The Fifth Year of the Seven Year Plan is opening under circumstances
of utmost gravity in Eastern and Western Hemispheres. The fever of the
times is steadily mounting, throwing into sharper relief the contrast between
the rising greatness of the Faith of Bahá’u’lláh and the falling fortunes of a
moribund civilization. The American Bahá’í Community, rapidly pursuing
the career traced by unerring finger of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, can neither halt nor
waver. I cannot forbear address my particular plea to focus, owing to virtual
termination of Temple ornamentation, attention on teaching requirements of
the Plan. I appeal to incoming National Assembly, its auxiliary Teaching
Committees and subsidiary agencies to deliberate and devise means to insure
prompt reinstatement of the Assemblies recently disbanded and formation
of Assembly in each newly-opened State and Province of North America and
continuity of the consolidation of the pioneer work initiated in every Latin
Republic. Undismayed by aggravation of the fury of the world tempest
threatening their shores, scornful of the agitation stirred up by their
adversaries, the breakers of the Covenant, the resolute upholders of the Divine
Plan will, indeed cannot but, persist in their ordained task to propagate the
flame, enlarge the administrative limits, and strike deeper roots of the
world-encircling world-redeeming Faith of Bahá’u’lláh.
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