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Citadel of Faith
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Pages 12-13
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TASKS IN LATIN AMERICA
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In the far-flung Latin American field, where the first fruits of the
Divine Plan, operating beyond the confines of the North American
continent, have already been garnered in such abundance, the Latin
American Bahá'í communities, from the Mexican border to the extremity
of Chile, should bestir themselves for the collective, the historic and
gigantic tasks that await them, and which must culminate, ere the
expiry of the present Plan, in the formation of two national spiritual
assemblies for Central and South America.
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The marvelous progress achieved as a result of the operation of the
first Seven Year Plan, as evidenced by the establishment of full-fledged
spiritual assemblies in the virgin territories of no less than fourteen
republics, and the formation of active groups in the remaining republics,
has been enhanced by the even more startling expansion of
Bahá'í activity since the termination of the first stage of the Divine
Plan. As a result of this expansion spiritual assemblies have been
established in all the remaining republics, the number of localities
where Bahá'ís reside has been raised to over a hundred, almost double
the number of localities in which the Faith had been introduced after
the completion of the first Seven Year Plan, the number of spiritual
assemblies has swelled to no less than thirty-seven, three of which have
been duly incorporated, a notable impetus has been given to the
activities of the distributing centers of Bahá'í literature in Argentina
and Panama, historic conferences have been held in these two republics,
summer schools have been inaugurated in Argentina and
Chile, and a tract of land has been presented as a site for the first
Mashriqu'l-Adhkár in Latin America. No community since the inception
of the hundred-year-old Faith of Bahá'u'lláh, not even the community
of the Most Great Name in the North American continent, can
boast of an evolution as rapid, a consolidation as sound, a multiplication
of centers as swift, as those that have marked the birth and rise of the
community of His followers in Latin America.
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The colossal tasks that now summon this Latin American Bahá'í
community to a challenge, cannot but dwarf, if faithfully and promptly
accomplished, the magnificent achievements that have immortalized
the first decade of organized activity in Latin American Bahá'í history.
The seed-sowing stage associated, in the main, with the labors and
travels of that saintly soul, that star-servant of the Faith of Bahá'u'lláh,
the incomparable Martha Root, links this decade of organized Bahá'í
activity in Latin America with both the closing years of the Heroic Age
of our Faith and the first fifteen years of the initial epoch of the Age we
live in.
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