Citadel of Faith
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Letters to the American Bahá'í Community
IN MEMORIAM

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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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