Citadel of Faith: Messages to America 1947-1957 =============================================== Exported from Holy-Writings.com on 2026-06-19 1 clipping 1. 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. ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── 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. 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