Assure newly-elected members of my fervent prayers for divine guidance
and strength to accomplish the tasks confronting the American Bahá'í community
in the second year of the second Bahá'í century. I appeal to National
Teaching, Regional and Inter-America Committees to intensify efforts for
multiplication of groups and Assemblies the length and breadth of the western
hemisphere. An ever-increasing flow of pioneers is indispensable to meet
the urgent requirements of the present hour. Renewed, determined, continued
exertions by individuals aimed at an unprecedented increase in the
number of enrolled believers is vital to the consolidation of activities
undertaken by pioneers. Systematic, well-conceived, carefully coordinated
plans, nationwide and intercontinental, devised by elected national
representatives of the community, are likewise a necessary preliminary to a
seed-sowing unexampled both in range and effectiveness in American Bahá'í
history. The attainment of this threefold objective in North, Central and
South America will signalize the initiation, in other continents, of the world
mission constituting the sacred birthright of the American followers of the
Faith of Bahá'u'lláh.
Cablegram May 8, 1945