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BEFITTINGLY CONSUMMATE THE ENTERPRISES The brilliant achievements of the heroic pioneers, the itinerant teachers, the indefatigable administrators of Baha'i teaching activities whether local, regional or national, set the seal of total victory on the Seven Year Plan, befittingly consummate the fifty year long enterprises undertaken by the American Baha'i Century. My heart is filled with joy, love, pride and gratitude at the contemplation of the stupendous shining deeds immortalizing the valiant prosecutors of the greatest collective enterprise ever launched in the course of the history of the Faith of Baha'u'llah. (69:1) TURNING POINT IN BAHA'I HISTORY The one remaining and indeed the most challenging task confronting the American Baha'i Community has at long last been brilliantly accomplished. The structural basis of the Administrative Order of the Faith of Baha'u'llah has, through this superb victory, and on the very eve of the world-wide celebrations of the Centenary of His Faith, been firmly laid by the champion-builders of His World Order in every state of the Great Republic of the West and in every Province of the Dominion of Canada. In each of the Republics of Central and South America, moreover, the banner of His undefeatable Faith has been implanted by the members of that same community, while in no less than thirteen Republics of Latin America as well as in two Dependencies in the West Indies, Spiritual Assemblies have been established and are already functioning - a feat that has outstripped the goal originally fixed for the valiant members of that Community in their inter-continental sphere of Baha'i activity. The exterior ornamentation of the first Mashriqu'l-Adhkar of the West - the culture of a forty year old enterprise repeatedly blessed and continually nurtured by 'Abdu'l-Baha has, furthermore, through a remarkable manifestation of the spirit of Baha'i solidarity and self-sacrifice so powerfully animating the members of that stalwart community, been successfully completed, more than a year in advance of the time set for its termination. (69:2) The triple task undertaken with such courage, confidence, zeal and determination - a task which ever since the inception of the Seven Year Plan has challenged and galvanized into action the entire body of the American believers and for the efficient prosecution of which processes of a divinely appointed Administrative Order had, during no less than sixteen years, been steadily evolving - is now finally accomplished and crowned with total victory. (69:3) The greatest collective enterprise ever launched by the Western followers of Baha'u'llah and indeed ever undertaken by any Baha'i community in the course of an entire century, has been gloriously consummated. A victory of undying fame has marked the culmination of the fifty year long labors of the American Baha'i community in the service of Baha'u'llah and has shed imperishable lustre on the immortal records of His Faith during the first hundred years of its existence. The exploits that have marked the progress of this prodigious, this three-fold enterprise, covering a field stretching from Alaska in the North to the extremity of Chile in the South, affecting the destinies of so great a variety of peoples and nations, involving such a tremendous expenditure of treasure and effort, calling forth so remarkable a spirit of heroism and self-sacrifice, and undertaken notwithstanding the vicious assaults and incessant machinations of the breakers of 'Abdu'l-Baha's Covenant, and despite the perils, the trials and restrictions of a desolating war of unexampled severity, augur well for the successful prosecution, and indeed assure the ultimate victory, of the remaining stages of the Plan conceived, a quarter of a century ago, by 'Abdu'l-Baha for the followers of Baha'u'llah in the North American continent.
(69:4)
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