Citadel of Faith: Messages to America 1947-1957
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Source: Bahá'í Library Online (bahai-library.com), curated by Jonah Winters. Used by permission of the curator. Original citation: Shoghi Effendi, Citadel of Faith: Messages to America 1947-1957, Wilmette: Bahá'í Publishing Trust, 1980, bahai-library.com.
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Citadel of Faith:

Messages to America 1947-1957

Shoghi Effendi

Wilmette: Bahá'í Publishing Trust, 1980

Contents

Letters to the American Bahá'í Community
Believers' Generous Response to Temple Fund

Call to Fuller Participation

Consolidation in Europe

Participation in Second Seven Year Plan

NSA Must Control Credentials of Foreigners

The Challenging Requirements of the Present Hour

European Pioneers and Temple Contract

Evidences of Notable Expansion

Effective Prosecution of Sacred Tasks

Recognition of Preeminent Services

Critical Stage of Task on Home Front

No Sacrifice Too Great

Prevailing Crisis

Emergency Teaching Campaign

Marvelous Acceleration

Brilliant Achievements

Support the National Fund

Temple Interior Ornamentation and Arcade of the Báb's Sepulcher

My Appeal to This God-Chosen Community

Urge Special Attention to Goals

Praying for Added Fervor

Completed Tasks Release Outpouring of Grace

Appeal to Entire Community to Persevere

Scale Nobler Heights of Heroism

The Citadel of the Faith of Bahá'u'lláh

Budget Approved for 1949-1950

Preliminary Temple Contracts

Arcade for the Shrine of the Báb

Drastic Budget Reduction

Further Budget Reduction

Curtailment of Some Activities

Divert Contributions to Temple Fund

Suspend World Order Magazine

A Testing Period Recalling Ordeals of the Dawn-Breakers

Arcade of the Báb's Shrine Begun

One Remaining Objective Hangs in the Balance

Process of Expansion Accelerates

Welcome Initial Victory

Supplicating Blessing for American Activities

Corners of Shrine Arcade Under Construction

This Hour, Crowded With Destiny

Praying For Increasing Success

Majesty of the Báb's Shrine Unfolding

Faithless Brother Hussein

Maintain Momentum in Triple Field

Shrine Parapet Completed

Sacred Task of Present Hour

Shrine Arcade Nearing Completion

Centenary of the Martyrdom of the Báb

A Worthy, Five-Fold Offering

Ruhi and Family Show Open Defiance

&Non-Bahá'í Gifts

Teaching in Africa

Comforted by Messages of Devotion

Relieved by Intensified Activity

Badí'u'llah Has Miserably Perished

Requirements for Temple Completion

Summer Schools to Reopen

Assistance to Epoch-Making Enterprise in Africa

Status of Bahá'ís Regarding Military Duty

Spiritual Conquest of the Planet

First American Pioneer to Africa

Message to 1951 State Conventions

The Last and Irretrievable Chance

Funds for International Center

Forty-Fifth Annual Convention: U.S. Tasks in World Crusade

Intending Pioneers Urged to Scatter

A Turning Point in American Bahá'í History

Safeguarding American Primacy

Temple Site Purchased in Panama

Assemblies Must Be Maintained

American Bahá'ís in the Time of World Peril

Nine-Pointed Star for Headstone

Send Appeals to President Eisenhower

A Mysterious Dispensation of Providence

Revitalize Entire Community

Greater Consecration to Pressing Tasks

Praying for Great Victories on Home Front

Inestimable Prizes Within Our Reach

Intensification of Efforts

Dual, Inescapable, Paramount Responsibilities

Heights Never Before Attained

IN MEMORIAM
Frank Ashton

Ella Bailey

Dorothy Baker

Mary Barton

Victoria Bedikian

Ella Cooper

Julia Culver

Dagmar Dole

Homer Dyer

L. W. Eggleston

Harry Ford

Nellie French

Louis C. Gregory

Louise M. Gregory

Bertha Herklotz

Marie Hopper

Maria Ioas

Beatrice Irwin

Marion Jack

Florence Breed Khan

Edward B. Kinney

Fanny Knobloch

George Latimer

Ruhaniyyih Latimer

Fanny Lesch

Edwin W. Mattoon

William Sutherland Maxwell

Florence Morton

Ella Robarts

Annie Romer

Fred Schopflocher

Anthony Y. Seto

Philip G. Sprague

Gertrude Struven

Juliet Thompson

George Townshend

Roy C. Wilhelm

Albert Windust

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-- Citadel of Faith: Messages to America 1947-1957 (Used by permission of the curator)