|  | TRIPLE CAMPAIGN OF CRITICAL IMPORTANCE | 
	| 1 | The triple campaign, conducted in two hemispheres, comprising 
within the scope of its operation the entire territory of the North 
American republic, the Dominion of Canada, twenty republics of 
Latin America, and no less than ten sovereign states of the European 
continent, is indeed of critical importance.  Every phase of this threefold 
crusade, undertaken at the dawn of the second Bahá'í century by the 
executors of `Abdu'l-Bahá's Will and the custodians of His Plan, must 
be accorded its due measure of consideration and its needs simultaneously 
and vigorously fulfilled.  The allurements of the glorious 
adventure in the Latin American field, the glittering prizes already won 
and the new ones within reach, must, at no time, obscure the issues, or 
retard the task confronting the prosecutors of the Plan in their homeland, 
or allow the interests of its assemblies, for the most part new and 
struggling, to be either neglected or forgotten.  Nor must the glamor of 
the still more recent and glorious adventure embarked upon across the 
Atlantic, within a turbulent, politically convulsed, economically disrupted 
and spiritually depleted continent, dim, in however small a 
measure, the radiance, or detract from the urgency, of the magnificent 
enterprises, whose first fruits in Latin America are only beginning to 
mature, in direct consequence of the initial operation of the Plan 
bequeathed by `Abdu'l-Bahá to the American believers. | 
	| 2 | To the vital requirements of this Plan, at so critical a juncture, both 
in the fortunes of mankind in general, and of the Plan itself, to which 
detailed reference has been made in a previous communication, I need 
not again refer.  All I desire to emphasize is my fervent plea, addressed to 
both the administrators who, as the elected representatives of the 
community must devise the plans, coordinate the activities, and direct 
the agencies of a continually expanding community, and to those 
whose privilege it is to labor, at home and abroad, to insure the effective 
prosecution of these sacred tasks, to realize the propitiousness of the 
present hour, recognize its urgency, meet its challenge and appreciate 
its unique potentialities.  As the international situation worsens, as the 
fortunes of mankind sink to a still lower ebb, the momentum of the 
Plan must be further accelerated, and the concerted exertions of the 
community responsible for its execution rise to still higher levels of 
consecration and heroism.  As the fabric of present-day society heaves 
and cracks under the strain and stress of portentous events and calamities, 
as the fissures, accentuating the cleavage separating nation from 
nation, class from class, race from race, and creed from creed, multiply, 
the prosecutors of the Plan must evince a still greater cohesion in their 
spiritual lives and administrative activities, and demonstrate a higher 
standard of concerted effort, of mutual assistance, and of harmonious 
development in their collective enterprises. | 
	| 3 | Then, and only then, will the reaction to the stupendous forces, 
released through the operation of a divinely conceived, divinely impelled 
Plan, be made apparent, and the fairest fruit of the weightiest 
spiritual enterprise launched in recorded history under the aegis of the 
Center of the Covenant of Bahá'u'lláh be garnered. [October 25, 1947] 
 
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