Last phase of Seven Year Plan so auspiciously begun, so vigorously
prosecuted, is opening. The first Bahá’í Century is fast running out. The
agonies of a travailing age are culminating. The Báb’s stirring, unique
injunction, directing the peoples of the West to leave their cities to insure
the triumph of the Divine Cause was recorded a century ago in the
Qayyúmu’l-Asmá. Bahá’u’lláh’s significant summons calling upon all the
Presidents of the Republics of the western hemisphere to champion the Cause of
Justice was issued seventy years ago in His Most Holy Book. The broad
outlines of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá’s matchless design, conceived twenty-five years
ago for the benefit of the North American believers, was transmitted to
posterity in the Tablets of the Divine Plan. The Seven Year Enterprise,
regarded as the initial stage in the execution of a World Mission, has been
already launched. The gigantic Temple undertaking, constituting the major
obligation of this enterprise, has been virtually consummated. The vast
Intercontinental Teaching Campaign is visibly yielding first fruits in every
Republic of Latin America. Upon the crucial year ahead hinge the fortunes of
this historic crusade. From Alaska to Chile, the Americas are astir with the
leavening influences of the rising Order of the newborn Revelation. The great
Republic of the West is inescapably swept into the swelling tide of the world
tribulations, presaging the assumption of a preponderating share in the
establishment of the anticipated Lesser Peace. Invisible hosts are marshalled,
eager to rush forth and crown every effort, however humble, however belated,
exerted to speed the unfinished tasks. Again I renew plea for closer communion
with the Spirit of Bahá’u’lláh, for more passionate resolve, for more
abundant flow of material resources, and for wider dispersion, intenser
concentration, by a still greater number of pioneers, settlers and itinerant
teachers to insure for the Plan a termination commensurate with and wondrous
as the exploits marking the opening decade of first Bahá’í Century.
Myself deprived of personal participation in the task allotted to the
prosecutors of the epoch-making Plan, I am impelled to deputize five members
of the American Bahá’í community to help fulfill in my behalf whatsoever
pioneer field is most vital to its urgent requirements. Pledging five thousand
dollars for accomplishment of this purpose.
Cablegram April 26, 1942
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