The responsibilities which, under your direction and in response to my
plea, the American community is now assuming, over and above the task
they have already undertaken in connection with the Divine Plan, proclaiming
in unmistakable terms their unswerving determination to prove themselves
worthy of the sublimity of their mission, and of their privileged
position among their sister communities in both the East and the West,--the
twofold task they have arisen to perform will, if carried out in time, release
the potentialities with which the community of the Greatest Name has been
so generously and mysteriously endowed by `Abdu'l-Bahá. To carry out in
its entirety and to its final consummation this dual enterprise would shed on
the closing years of this first century of the Bahá'í Era a luster no less
brilliant than the immortal deeds which have signalized its birth, in the
heroic age of our Faith. To the American believers, the spiritual descendants
of the heroes of God's Cause, I again address my plea to arise as one soul
and to prosecute with unrelaxing resolve the high mission with which their
immediate destiny is inextricably interwoven. The call has gone forth, the
path is clear, the goal manifest and within their reach. Though their
responsibilities be pressing and heavy and the obstacles formidable and
manifold, yet the spirit of our invincible Faith will enable them to conquer if
they arise unitedly and determinedly and persevere till the very end.
June 4, 1937