Citadel of FaithbyShoghi EffendiEdition 1, (September 2006)Baha'i Terms of UseYou have permission to freely make and use copies of the text and any other information ("Content") available on this Site including printing, emailing, posting, distributing, copying, downloading, uploading, transmitting, displaying the Content in whole or in part subject to the following:1. Our copyright notice and the source reference must be attached to the Content;2. The Content may not be modified or altered in any way except to change the font or appearance;3. The Content must be used solely for a non-commercial purpose.Although this blanket permission to reproduce the Content is given freely such that no special permission is required, the Bahá’í International Community retains full copyright protection for all Content included at this Site under all applicable national and international laws.For permission to publish, transmit, display or otherwise use the Content for any commercial purpose, please contact us (http://reference.bahai.org/en/contact.html).ContentsBaha'i Terms of UseBelievers’ Generous Response to Temple FundCall to Fuller ParticipationConsolidation in EuropeParticipation in Second Seven Year Plan[MESSAGE TO 1947 CONVENTION]NSA Must Control Credentials of ForeignersThe Challenging Requirements of the Present HourCROWNING FEATURE OF ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER: THE UNIVERSAL HOUSE OF JUSTICEFOURFOLD OBJECTIVE TO PRESENT REQUIREMENTSGOALS IN THE UNITED STATES AND ALASKACANADA TO FORM SEPARATE NATIONAL ASSEMBLYTASKS IN LATIN AMERICATWO REGIONAL NATIONAL ASSEMBLIES A VITAL OBJECTIVEIMPORTANCE OF THE AMERICAN INDIANSBAHÁ’U’LLÁH’S SUMMONS TO THE WESTERN HEMISPHERESPIRITUAL CRUSADE TO BE LAUNCHED IN EUROPEEVOLVING STRONGHOLDS IN TEN INITIAL COUNTRIESINITIATING NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS AND ADAPTING TEACHING METHODSEUROPE FEELS STIRRINGS OF SPIRITUAL REVOLUTIONDIVINE PLAN CHALLENGES NORTH AMERICAN BELIEVERSDETACHMENT FROM THE PHYSICAL WORLDCONTRIBUTION OF THE WEST TO WORLD ORDERTHE WORKINGS OF TWO SIMULTANEOUS PROCESSESA PARALLEL BETWEEN THE AMERICAN BAHÁ’Í COMMUNITY AND THE AMERICAN REPUBLICTHE UNITED STATES IS SIGNALLY BLESTTRIBULATIONS ARE INEVITABLEAMERICA TO EVOLVE UNTIL LAST TASK IS DISCHARGEDEuropean Pioneers and Temple ContractEvidences of Notable ExpansionEffective Prosecution of Sacred TasksHEART-WARMING PROGRESS IN EUROPEAN ENTERPRISETRIPLE CAMPAIGN OF CRITICAL IMPORTANCERecognition of Preeminent ServicesCritical Stage of Task on Home FrontNo Sacrifice Too GreatPrevailing CrisisEmergency Teaching CampaignMarvelous Acceleration[FIRST MESSAGE TO 1948 CONVENTION]Brilliant Achievements[SECOND MESSAGE TO 1948 CONVENTION]Support the National FundTemple Interior Ornamentation and Arcade of the Báb’s SepulcherMy Appeal to This God-Chosen CommunityUrge Special Attention to GoalsPraying for Added FervorCompleted Tasks Release Outpouring of GraceAppeal to Entire Community to PersevereScale Nobler Heights of HeroismThe Citadel of the Faith of Bahá’u’lláhSTAUNCHNESS OF AMERICAN BELIEVERSPRESS FORWARD ON TEMPLE CONTRACTSCEASELESS EFFORT ESSENTIALBudget Approved for 1949–1950Preliminary Temple ContractsArcade for the Shrine of the BábDrastic Budget ReductionFurther Budget ReductionCurtailment of Some ActivitiesDivert Contributions to Temple FundSuspend World Order MagazineA Testing Period Recalling Ordeals of the Dawn-BreakersArcade of the Báb’s Shrine BegunOne Remaining Objective Hangs in the BalanceProcess of Expansion Accelerates[MESSAGE TO 1949 CONVENTION]Welcome Initial VictorySupplicating Blessing for American ActivitiesCorners of Shrine Arcade Under ConstructionThis Hour, Crowded With DestinyPraying For Increasing SuccessMajesty of the Báb’s Shrine UnfoldingFaithless Brother HusseinMaintain Momentum in Triple FieldShrine Parapet CompletedSacred Task of Present HourShrine Arcade Nearing CompletionCentenary of the Martyrdom of the BábA Worthy, Five-Fold OfferingAN HOUR LADEN WITH FATERuhi and Family Show Open DefianceNon-Bahá’í GiftsTeaching in AfricaComforted by Messages of DevotionRelieved by Intensified ActivityBadí’u’lláh Has Miserably PerishedRequirements for Temple CompletionSummer Schools to ReopenAssistance to Epoch-Making Enterprise in AfricaStatus of Bahá’ís Regarding Military DutySpiritual Conquest of the PlanetNO SACRIFICE TOO GREATTHE CENTER OF NINE CONCENTRIC CIRCLESTHE CHOSEN TRUSTEES OF A DIVINE PLANFirst American Pioneer to AfricaMessage to 1951 State ConventionsThe Last and Irretrievable ChanceA PERIOD OF HISTORIC SIGNIFICANCEOBJECTIVES OF SECOND SEVEN YEAR PLAN LARGELY ATTAINEDSCOPE OF THIRD SEVEN YEAR PLAN WIDENEDFunds for International CenterForty-Fifth Annual Convention: U.S. Tasks in World CrusadeIntending Pioneers Urged to ScatterA Turning Point in American Bahá’í HistoryRECENT SERVICES DESERVING MENTIONADDED RESPONSIBILITIES IN PROPAGATING THE DIVINE PLANA LASTING INFLUENCE ON AMERICAN COMMUNITY AND NATIONMOST VITAL OBJECTIVE IN THE CRUSADE’S OPENING YEARAN APPEAL TO ALL ENGAGED IN THE CRUSADESafeguarding American PrimacyTemple Site Purchased in PanamaAssemblies Must Be MaintainedAmerican Bahá’ís in the Time of World PerilCHIEF EXECUTOR OF DIVINE PLANAMERICA PASSING THROUGH CRISISAMERICAN BAHÁ’ÍS STAND AT CROSSROADSWORLD CRUSADE TASKSCHALLENGE TO EACH INDIVIDUAL BAHÁ’ÍAPPEAL FOR DEDICATIONNine-Pointed Star for HeadstoneSend Appeals to President EisenhowerA Mysterious Dispensation of ProvidencePERSECUTION OF THE BAHÁ’ÍS OF ÍRÁNA PREMEDITATED CAMPAIGN OF PERSECUTIONAPPEALS TO THE AUTHORITIES OF ÍRÁN AND TO THE UNITED NATIONSA WHOLLY DEDICATED, INFLEXIBLE RESOLVE“SAVE THE PERSECUTED FUND”THE FIRST HOUSE OF WORSHIP IN AFRICAA BLESSING IN DISGUISEUNPRECEDENTED PUBLICITYWORLD RECOGNITION OF THE FAITHRevitalize Entire CommunityGreater Consecration to Pressing TasksPraying for Great Victories on Home FrontInestimable Prizes Within Our ReachAID ACCORDED TO THEIR OPPRESSED BRETHREN IN PERSIAA NOBLE RECORD OF SERVICEFRUITFUL EFFORTS OF HANDS OF THE CAUSESTUPENDOUS WORK ACHIEVED BY MEMBERS OF THE INTERNATIONAL BAHÁ’Í COUNCILREVITALIZATION OF THE HOME FRONTTHE INDIVIDUAL BAHÁ’Í MUST ARISE“A PRAYER WHICH I NEVER CEASE TO UTTER”Intensification of EffortsDual, Inescapable, Paramount ResponsibilitiesHeights Never Before AttainedENDURING ACHIEVEMENTSTHE HOME FRONT—BASE FOR EXPANSION OF FUTURE OPERATIONSMIGHTY AND HISTORIC ENTERPRISESA GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY, A GLORIOUS CHALLENGEHIS WATCHFUL POWER AND UNFAILING GRACEIN MEMORIAMFrank AshtonElla BaileyDorothy BakerMary BartonVictoria BedikianElla CooperJulia CulverDagmar DoleHomer DyerL. W. EgglestonHarry FordNellie FrenchLouis C. GregoryLouise M. GregoryBertha HerklotzMarie HopperMaria IoasBeatrice IrwinMarion JackFlorence Breed KhanEdward B. KinneyFanny KnoblochGeorge LatimerRuhaniyyih LatimerFanny LeschEdwin W. MattoonWilliam Sutherland MaxwellFlorence MortonElla RobartsAnnie RomerFred SchopflocherAnthony Y. SetoPhilip G. SpragueGertrude StruvenJuliet ThompsonGeorge TownshendRoy C. WilhelmAlbert Windust
Citadel of FaithbyShoghi EffendiEdition 1, (September 2006)Baha'i Terms of UseYou have permission to freely make and use copies of the text and any other information ("Content") available on this Site including printing, emailing, posting, distributing, copying, downloading, uploading, transmitting, displaying the Content in whole or in part subject to the following:1. Our copyright notice and the source reference must be attached to the Content;2. The Content may not be modified or altered in any way except to change the font or appearance;3. The Content must be used solely for a non-commercial purpose.Although this blanket permission to reproduce the Content is given freely such that no special permission is required, the Bahá’í International Community retains full copyright protection for all Content included at this Site under all applicable national and international laws.For permission to publish, transmit, display or otherwise use the Content for any commercial purpose, please contact us (http://reference.bahai.org/en/contact.html).ContentsBaha'i Terms of UseBelievers’ Generous Response to Temple FundCall to Fuller ParticipationConsolidation in EuropeParticipation in Second Seven Year Plan[MESSAGE TO 1947 CONVENTION]NSA Must Control Credentials of ForeignersThe Challenging Requirements of the Present HourCROWNING FEATURE OF ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER: THE UNIVERSAL HOUSE OF JUSTICEFOURFOLD OBJECTIVE TO PRESENT REQUIREMENTSGOALS IN THE UNITED STATES AND ALASKACANADA TO FORM SEPARATE NATIONAL ASSEMBLYTASKS IN LATIN AMERICATWO REGIONAL NATIONAL ASSEMBLIES A VITAL OBJECTIVEIMPORTANCE OF THE AMERICAN INDIANSBAHÁ’U’LLÁH’S SUMMONS TO THE WESTERN HEMISPHERESPIRITUAL CRUSADE TO BE LAUNCHED IN EUROPEEVOLVING STRONGHOLDS IN TEN INITIAL COUNTRIESINITIATING NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS AND ADAPTING TEACHING METHODSEUROPE FEELS STIRRINGS OF SPIRITUAL REVOLUTIONDIVINE PLAN CHALLENGES NORTH AMERICAN BELIEVERSDETACHMENT FROM THE PHYSICAL WORLDCONTRIBUTION OF THE WEST TO WORLD ORDERTHE WORKINGS OF TWO SIMULTANEOUS PROCESSESA PARALLEL BETWEEN THE AMERICAN BAHÁ’Í COMMUNITY AND THE AMERICAN REPUBLICTHE UNITED STATES IS SIGNALLY BLESTTRIBULATIONS ARE INEVITABLEAMERICA TO EVOLVE UNTIL LAST TASK IS DISCHARGEDEuropean Pioneers and Temple ContractEvidences of Notable ExpansionEffective Prosecution of Sacred TasksHEART-WARMING PROGRESS IN EUROPEAN ENTERPRISETRIPLE CAMPAIGN OF CRITICAL IMPORTANCERecognition of Preeminent ServicesCritical Stage of Task on Home FrontNo Sacrifice Too GreatPrevailing CrisisEmergency Teaching CampaignMarvelous Acceleration[FIRST MESSAGE TO 1948 CONVENTION]Brilliant Achievements[SECOND MESSAGE TO 1948 CONVENTION]Support the National FundTemple Interior Ornamentation and Arcade of the Báb’s SepulcherMy Appeal to This God-Chosen CommunityUrge Special Attention to GoalsPraying for Added FervorCompleted Tasks Release Outpouring of GraceAppeal to Entire Community to PersevereScale Nobler Heights of HeroismThe Citadel of the Faith of Bahá’u’lláhSTAUNCHNESS OF AMERICAN BELIEVERSPRESS FORWARD ON TEMPLE CONTRACTSCEASELESS EFFORT ESSENTIALBudget Approved for 1949–1950Preliminary Temple ContractsArcade for the Shrine of the BábDrastic Budget ReductionFurther Budget ReductionCurtailment of Some ActivitiesDivert Contributions to Temple FundSuspend World Order MagazineA Testing Period Recalling Ordeals of the Dawn-BreakersArcade of the Báb’s Shrine BegunOne Remaining Objective Hangs in the BalanceProcess of Expansion Accelerates[MESSAGE TO 1949 CONVENTION]Welcome Initial VictorySupplicating Blessing for American ActivitiesCorners of Shrine Arcade Under ConstructionThis Hour, Crowded With DestinyPraying For Increasing SuccessMajesty of the Báb’s Shrine UnfoldingFaithless Brother HusseinMaintain Momentum in Triple FieldShrine Parapet CompletedSacred Task of Present HourShrine Arcade Nearing CompletionCentenary of the Martyrdom of the BábA Worthy, Five-Fold OfferingAN HOUR LADEN WITH FATERuhi and Family Show Open DefianceNon-Bahá’í GiftsTeaching in AfricaComforted by Messages of DevotionRelieved by Intensified ActivityBadí’u’lláh Has Miserably PerishedRequirements for Temple CompletionSummer Schools to ReopenAssistance to Epoch-Making Enterprise in AfricaStatus of Bahá’ís Regarding Military DutySpiritual Conquest of the PlanetNO SACRIFICE TOO GREATTHE CENTER OF NINE CONCENTRIC CIRCLESTHE CHOSEN TRUSTEES OF A DIVINE PLANFirst American Pioneer to AfricaMessage to 1951 State ConventionsThe Last and Irretrievable ChanceA PERIOD OF HISTORIC SIGNIFICANCEOBJECTIVES OF SECOND SEVEN YEAR PLAN LARGELY ATTAINEDSCOPE OF THIRD SEVEN YEAR PLAN WIDENEDFunds for International CenterForty-Fifth Annual Convention: U.S. Tasks in World CrusadeIntending Pioneers Urged to ScatterA Turning Point in American Bahá’í HistoryRECENT SERVICES DESERVING MENTIONADDED RESPONSIBILITIES IN PROPAGATING THE DIVINE PLANA LASTING INFLUENCE ON AMERICAN COMMUNITY AND NATIONMOST VITAL OBJECTIVE IN THE CRUSADE’S OPENING YEARAN APPEAL TO ALL ENGAGED IN THE CRUSADESafeguarding American PrimacyTemple Site Purchased in PanamaAssemblies Must Be MaintainedAmerican Bahá’ís in the Time of World PerilCHIEF EXECUTOR OF DIVINE PLANAMERICA PASSING THROUGH CRISISAMERICAN BAHÁ’ÍS STAND AT CROSSROADSWORLD CRUSADE TASKSCHALLENGE TO EACH INDIVIDUAL BAHÁ’ÍAPPEAL FOR DEDICATIONNine-Pointed Star for HeadstoneSend Appeals to President EisenhowerA Mysterious Dispensation of ProvidencePERSECUTION OF THE BAHÁ’ÍS OF ÍRÁNA PREMEDITATED CAMPAIGN OF PERSECUTIONAPPEALS TO THE AUTHORITIES OF ÍRÁN AND TO THE UNITED NATIONSA WHOLLY DEDICATED, INFLEXIBLE RESOLVE“SAVE THE PERSECUTED FUND”THE FIRST HOUSE OF WORSHIP IN AFRICAA BLESSING IN DISGUISEUNPRECEDENTED PUBLICITYWORLD RECOGNITION OF THE FAITHRevitalize Entire CommunityGreater Consecration to Pressing TasksPraying for Great Victories on Home FrontInestimable Prizes Within Our ReachAID ACCORDED TO THEIR OPPRESSED BRETHREN IN PERSIAA NOBLE RECORD OF SERVICEFRUITFUL EFFORTS OF HANDS OF THE CAUSESTUPENDOUS WORK ACHIEVED BY MEMBERS OF THE INTERNATIONAL BAHÁ’Í COUNCILREVITALIZATION OF THE HOME FRONTTHE INDIVIDUAL BAHÁ’Í MUST ARISE“A PRAYER WHICH I NEVER CEASE TO UTTER”Intensification of EffortsDual, Inescapable, Paramount ResponsibilitiesHeights Never Before AttainedENDURING ACHIEVEMENTSTHE HOME FRONT—BASE FOR EXPANSION OF FUTURE OPERATIONSMIGHTY AND HISTORIC ENTERPRISESA GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY, A GLORIOUS CHALLENGEHIS WATCHFUL POWER AND UNFAILING GRACEIN MEMORIAMFrank AshtonElla BaileyDorothy BakerMary BartonVictoria BedikianElla CooperJulia CulverDagmar DoleHomer DyerL. W. EgglestonHarry FordNellie FrenchLouis C. GregoryLouise M. GregoryBertha HerklotzMarie HopperMaria IoasBeatrice IrwinMarion JackFlorence Breed KhanEdward B. KinneyFanny KnoblochGeorge LatimerRuhaniyyih LatimerFanny LeschEdwin W. MattoonWilliam Sutherland MaxwellFlorence MortonElla RobartsAnnie RomerFred SchopflocherAnthony Y. SetoPhilip G. SpragueGertrude StruvenJuliet ThompsonGeorge TownshendRoy C. WilhelmAlbert Windust
Citadel of FaithbyShoghi EffendiEdition 1, (September 2006)
Citadel of Faith
Citadel of Faith
byShoghi Effendi
Edition 1, (September 2006)
Baha'i Terms of UseYou have permission to freely make and use copies of the text and any other information ("Content") available on this Site including printing, emailing, posting, distributing, copying, downloading, uploading, transmitting, displaying the Content in whole or in part subject to the following:1. Our copyright notice and the source reference must be attached to the Content;2. The Content may not be modified or altered in any way except to change the font or appearance;3. The Content must be used solely for a non-commercial purpose.Although this blanket permission to reproduce the Content is given freely such that no special permission is required, the Bahá’í International Community retains full copyright protection for all Content included at this Site under all applicable national and international laws.For permission to publish, transmit, display or otherwise use the Content for any commercial purpose, please contact us (http://reference.bahai.org/en/contact.html).
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ContentsBaha'i Terms of UseBelievers’ Generous Response to Temple FundCall to Fuller ParticipationConsolidation in EuropeParticipation in Second Seven Year Plan[MESSAGE TO 1947 CONVENTION]NSA Must Control Credentials of ForeignersThe Challenging Requirements of the Present HourCROWNING FEATURE OF ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER: THE UNIVERSAL HOUSE OF JUSTICEFOURFOLD OBJECTIVE TO PRESENT REQUIREMENTSGOALS IN THE UNITED STATES AND ALASKACANADA TO FORM SEPARATE NATIONAL ASSEMBLYTASKS IN LATIN AMERICATWO REGIONAL NATIONAL ASSEMBLIES A VITAL OBJECTIVEIMPORTANCE OF THE AMERICAN INDIANSBAHÁ’U’LLÁH’S SUMMONS TO THE WESTERN HEMISPHERESPIRITUAL CRUSADE TO BE LAUNCHED IN EUROPEEVOLVING STRONGHOLDS IN TEN INITIAL COUNTRIESINITIATING NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS AND ADAPTING TEACHING METHODSEUROPE FEELS STIRRINGS OF SPIRITUAL REVOLUTIONDIVINE PLAN CHALLENGES NORTH AMERICAN BELIEVERSDETACHMENT FROM THE PHYSICAL WORLDCONTRIBUTION OF THE WEST TO WORLD ORDERTHE WORKINGS OF TWO SIMULTANEOUS PROCESSESA PARALLEL BETWEEN THE AMERICAN BAHÁ’Í COMMUNITY AND THE AMERICAN REPUBLICTHE UNITED STATES IS SIGNALLY BLESTTRIBULATIONS ARE INEVITABLEAMERICA TO EVOLVE UNTIL LAST TASK IS DISCHARGEDEuropean Pioneers and Temple ContractEvidences of Notable ExpansionEffective Prosecution of Sacred TasksHEART-WARMING PROGRESS IN EUROPEAN ENTERPRISETRIPLE CAMPAIGN OF CRITICAL IMPORTANCERecognition of Preeminent ServicesCritical Stage of Task on Home FrontNo Sacrifice Too GreatPrevailing CrisisEmergency Teaching CampaignMarvelous Acceleration[FIRST MESSAGE TO 1948 CONVENTION]Brilliant Achievements[SECOND MESSAGE TO 1948 CONVENTION]Support the National FundTemple Interior Ornamentation and Arcade of the Báb’s SepulcherMy Appeal to This God-Chosen CommunityUrge Special Attention to GoalsPraying for Added FervorCompleted Tasks Release Outpouring of GraceAppeal to Entire Community to PersevereScale Nobler Heights of HeroismThe Citadel of the Faith of Bahá’u’lláhSTAUNCHNESS OF AMERICAN BELIEVERSPRESS FORWARD ON TEMPLE CONTRACTSCEASELESS EFFORT ESSENTIALBudget Approved for 1949–1950Preliminary Temple ContractsArcade for the Shrine of the BábDrastic Budget ReductionFurther Budget ReductionCurtailment of Some ActivitiesDivert Contributions to Temple FundSuspend World Order MagazineA Testing Period Recalling Ordeals of the Dawn-BreakersArcade of the Báb’s Shrine BegunOne Remaining Objective Hangs in the BalanceProcess of Expansion Accelerates[MESSAGE TO 1949 CONVENTION]Welcome Initial VictorySupplicating Blessing for American ActivitiesCorners of Shrine Arcade Under ConstructionThis Hour, Crowded With DestinyPraying For Increasing SuccessMajesty of the Báb’s Shrine UnfoldingFaithless Brother HusseinMaintain Momentum in Triple FieldShrine Parapet CompletedSacred Task of Present HourShrine Arcade Nearing CompletionCentenary of the Martyrdom of the BábA Worthy, Five-Fold OfferingAN HOUR LADEN WITH FATERuhi and Family Show Open DefianceNon-Bahá’í GiftsTeaching in AfricaComforted by Messages of DevotionRelieved by Intensified ActivityBadí’u’lláh Has Miserably PerishedRequirements for Temple CompletionSummer Schools to ReopenAssistance to Epoch-Making Enterprise in AfricaStatus of Bahá’ís Regarding Military DutySpiritual Conquest of the PlanetNO SACRIFICE TOO GREATTHE CENTER OF NINE CONCENTRIC CIRCLESTHE CHOSEN TRUSTEES OF A DIVINE PLANFirst American Pioneer to AfricaMessage to 1951 State ConventionsThe Last and Irretrievable ChanceA PERIOD OF HISTORIC SIGNIFICANCEOBJECTIVES OF SECOND SEVEN YEAR PLAN LARGELY ATTAINEDSCOPE OF THIRD SEVEN YEAR PLAN WIDENEDFunds for International CenterForty-Fifth Annual Convention: U.S. Tasks in World CrusadeIntending Pioneers Urged to ScatterA Turning Point in American Bahá’í HistoryRECENT SERVICES DESERVING MENTIONADDED RESPONSIBILITIES IN PROPAGATING THE DIVINE PLANA LASTING INFLUENCE ON AMERICAN COMMUNITY AND NATIONMOST VITAL OBJECTIVE IN THE CRUSADE’S OPENING YEARAN APPEAL TO ALL ENGAGED IN THE CRUSADESafeguarding American PrimacyTemple Site Purchased in PanamaAssemblies Must Be MaintainedAmerican Bahá’ís in the Time of World PerilCHIEF EXECUTOR OF DIVINE PLANAMERICA PASSING THROUGH CRISISAMERICAN BAHÁ’ÍS STAND AT CROSSROADSWORLD CRUSADE TASKSCHALLENGE TO EACH INDIVIDUAL BAHÁ’ÍAPPEAL FOR DEDICATIONNine-Pointed Star for HeadstoneSend Appeals to President EisenhowerA Mysterious Dispensation of ProvidencePERSECUTION OF THE BAHÁ’ÍS OF ÍRÁNA PREMEDITATED CAMPAIGN OF PERSECUTIONAPPEALS TO THE AUTHORITIES OF ÍRÁN AND TO THE UNITED NATIONSA WHOLLY DEDICATED, INFLEXIBLE RESOLVE“SAVE THE PERSECUTED FUND”THE FIRST HOUSE OF WORSHIP IN AFRICAA BLESSING IN DISGUISEUNPRECEDENTED PUBLICITYWORLD RECOGNITION OF THE FAITHRevitalize Entire CommunityGreater Consecration to Pressing TasksPraying for Great Victories on Home FrontInestimable Prizes Within Our ReachAID ACCORDED TO THEIR OPPRESSED BRETHREN IN PERSIAA NOBLE RECORD OF SERVICEFRUITFUL EFFORTS OF HANDS OF THE CAUSESTUPENDOUS WORK ACHIEVED BY MEMBERS OF THE INTERNATIONAL BAHÁ’Í COUNCILREVITALIZATION OF THE HOME FRONTTHE INDIVIDUAL BAHÁ’Í MUST ARISE“A PRAYER WHICH I NEVER CEASE TO UTTER”Intensification of EffortsDual, Inescapable, Paramount ResponsibilitiesHeights Never Before AttainedENDURING ACHIEVEMENTSTHE HOME FRONT—BASE FOR EXPANSION OF FUTURE OPERATIONSMIGHTY AND HISTORIC ENTERPRISESA GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY, A GLORIOUS CHALLENGEHIS WATCHFUL POWER AND UNFAILING GRACEIN MEMORIAMFrank AshtonElla BaileyDorothy BakerMary BartonVictoria BedikianElla CooperJulia CulverDagmar DoleHomer DyerL. W. EgglestonHarry FordNellie FrenchLouis C. GregoryLouise M. GregoryBertha HerklotzMarie HopperMaria IoasBeatrice IrwinMarion JackFlorence Breed KhanEdward B. KinneyFanny KnoblochGeorge LatimerRuhaniyyih LatimerFanny LeschEdwin W. MattoonWilliam Sutherland MaxwellFlorence MortonElla RobartsAnnie RomerFred SchopflocherAnthony Y. SetoPhilip G. SpragueGertrude StruvenJuliet ThompsonGeorge TownshendRoy C. WilhelmAlbert Windust