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WORLD CRUSADE Tasks- While this vital process of multiplication of Baha'i isolated centers, groups and local assemblies is being accelerated, through a rapid and unprecedented dispersion of believers, and as the result of the initiation of vigorous teaching activities, through individuals as well as administrative agencies, the incorporation of full-fledged local assemblies - a process which has been noticeably slackening in recent years - must be given immediate attention by the community's elected national representatives, reinforcing, thereby, the foundations of local Baha'i communities, and paving the way for the establishment, in a not too distant future, of local Baha'i endowments. (128:1) The inauguration of the first dependency of the Mashriqu'l-Adhkar, the first link to be forged destined to bind the Community of the Most Great Name to the general public, expectant to witness the first evidences of direct Baha'i service to humanity as a complement to Baha'i worship, is yet another task which must be conscientiously tackled and fulfilled in the course of the second phase of this Ten-Year Plan. The consummation of this project must synchronize with the termination of the landscaping of the area surrounding the Temple - a double achievement that will mark yet another stage in the materialization of 'Abdu'l-Baha's often expressed and cherished hopes for this holiest House of Worship in the Baha'i world.
(128:2)
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