Sears next appears in news in the States is 1959 following a redistribution of responsibilities and attended the national convention of the US community along with Corinne True and Horace Holley. He then undertook a long tour of talks across the United States and into Canada through to Spring 1960. He interrupted his tour in September having already reached more than 2000 Baháʼís across more than a hundred meetings. Starting in June Sears wrote several telegrams reacting to the decision of fellow Hand of the Cause Mason Remey to call himself "Guardian" which initiated a Baháʼí division. But this claim was almost universally rejected by the body of the Baháʼís and that group later broke into several other divisions, and dwindled away. In October 1959 Sears released a number of tapes as well as scripts individuals could use to make their own presentations for a number of occasions, and a tape of his was used in an inter-racial meeting in Durham NC the same month. Meanwhile, in July 1960 Hand of the Cause Horace Holley, who had been elected to act as a Custodian, died. Sears was named by the Hands to fill his place. Sears also released his autobiographical "God Loves Laughter". He then continued the tour into Latin America, Central America, the Greater Antilles and northern South American countries by July 1960.