Invested, among its sister communities in East and West,
with the primacy conferred upon it by ‘Abdu’l-Bahá’s Divine Plan; armed with
the mandatory provisions of His momentous Tablets; equipped with the agencies
of a quarter-century-old Administrative Order, whose fabric it has reared and
consolidated; encouraged by the marvelous success achieved by its daughter
communities throughout the Americas, a success which has sealed the triumph of
the first stage of that Plan; launched on a campaign of vaster dimensions, of
superior merit, of weightier potentialities, than any it has hitherto
initiated, a campaign destined to multiply its spiritual progeny in distant
lands and amidst divers races, the community of the Most Great Name in the
North American continent must arise, as it has never before in its history, and
demonstrate anew its capacity to perform such deeds as are worthy of its high
calling.
- Shoghi Effendi (From a message dated June 5, 1947; ‘Citadel of
Faith’)
