Ridvan 1965
The
Bahá'ís of the world
Dearly
loved friends,
The
tide of victory which carried the Bahá'í World community to the celebrations of
the Most Great Jubilee is still rising. A ceaseless shower of divine
confirmation rains upon our efforts, its evidences apparent in the many
noteworthy achievements of the few brief months since the launching of the Nine
Year Plan. The most spectacular of these is the increase in the number of
centres where Bahá'ís reside from fifteen thousand one hundred and sixty-eight
at Ridvan 1964 to twenty-one thousand and six at the present time, an increase
of nearly six thousand in one year. No less remarkable is the progress of the
teaching work in India where the number of believers now exceeds a hundred and
forty thousand, an increase of more than thirty thousand since Ridvan 1964.
Pioneers are moving to those few remaining territories of the earth as yet
un-illumined by the light of God's new Revelation; "the vast
increase" in the size of the Cause, called for at the launching of the
Plan, appears to be developing, while in country after country the institutions
and endowments of the Faith are being steadily and firmly established.
