Newly-launched Central American campaign marks official inauguration
of long-deferred World Mission constituting `Abdu'l-Bahá's distinctive legacy
to the Bahá'í Community of North America. Chosen Community broadening
its basis, gaining in stature, deepening in consecration. Its vanguard
now entering arena monopolized by entrenched forces of Christendom's
mightiest ecclesiastical institutions. Laboring amidst race foreign in
language, custom, temperament embracing vast proportion of New World's ethnic
elements. American believers' isolated oversea teaching enterprises hitherto
tentative, intermittent, now at end. New epoch opening, demanding exertions
incomparably more strenuous, unflinchingly sustained, centrally directed,
systematically organized, efficiently conducted. Upon alacrity,
tenacity, fearlessness of present prosecutors of the unfolding mission depend
speedy and fullest revelation, in the First and Second Centuries, of the
potentialities of the birthright conferred upon American believers. Convey
to pioneers in North, Middle and South America my eagerness to maintain
with each direct, personal contact. Assure Teaching and Inter-America
Committees my delight at successive testimonies of believers' glowing spirit
reflected in Minutes, letters and reports recently received. Entreat every
section of community to labor unremittingly until every nation in Western
Hemisphere is illumined by rays and woven into fabric of Bahá'u'lláh's
triumphant Administrative Order.
Cablegram May 28, 1939