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The beneficial and highly responsible activities undertaken by the Publishing, the Reviewing, the Library, the Service for the Blind, the Visual Education, the Pamphlet Literature and Study Aids Committees, designed to disseminate and insure the integrity of Baha'i literature, should, however indirectly connected with the purposes of the Plan, and within the limits imposed upon them through its operation, be steadily expanded, consolidated and be made to promote, in Whatever way possible, its paramount interests. (9:2) Nor should the "spacious territory of Alaska," particularly mentioned by 'Abdu'l-Baha in His Tablets of the Divine Plan, and at present the northern outpost of the Faith in the Western Hemisphere, be ignored, or its vital requirements neglected. The maintenance and consolidation of the first historic spiritual assembly in Anchorage, the northernmost administrative center of the Faith of Baha'u'llah in the world; the multiplication of Baha'i centers in that territory; the propagation of the teachings among the Eskimos, emphasized by 'Abdu'l-Baha's pen in those same Tablets; the translation and publication of selected passages from Baha'i literature in their native language; the extension of the limits of the Faith beyond Fairbanks and nearer to the Arctic Circle - these constitute the urgent tasks facing the prosecutors of the present Plan in the years immediately ahead.
(9:3)
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