Recent swift progress of Temple ornamentation prompts me entreat
American Community to focus immediate attention and center energies
upon corresponding acceleration in the Teaching enterprise formulated in
Seven Year Plan. Final phase in construction of Mashriqu'l-Adhkár already
entered. Initial stage in the inaugurated Teaching Campaign still
untraversed. End of First Century rapidly approaching. Alaska, Delaware,
Nevada, South Carolina, Utah, Vermont, West Virginia, Manitoba and Nova Scotia
still unsettled. Universal, prolonged intensification in pioneer activity is
the crying need of this fateful hour. The establishment of one resident
believer in each virgin territory is the precondition to the full launching
of the subsequent, eagerly-anticipated stage aiming at the spiritual conquest
of the Southern Half of the Western Hemisphere. The Concourse on high
expectantly await, ready to assist and acclaim the nine holy souls who,
independently or as deputies, will promptly, fearlessly volunteer to forsake
their homes, cast away their attachments and definitely settle in these
territories to lay firm anchorage of the Administrative Order of this
undefeatable Faith. I am irresistibly urged and proud of the privilege to
pledge nine hundred pounds to facilitate the permanent settlement of pioneers
in these States and Provinces whose acts and heroic self-abnegation will mark
the conclusion of this shining Epoch in American Bahá'í history.
Cablegram January 26, 1939