# 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
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> 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
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> 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
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> 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
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> 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
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> 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
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> 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
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> 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
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> 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
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> 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
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> 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
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> 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
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> IN MEMORIAM
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> Frank Ashton
> Ella Bailey
> Dorothy Baker
> Mary Barton
> Victoria Bedikian
> Ella Cooper
> Julia Culver
> Dagmar Dole
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> Homer Dyer
> L. W. Eggleston
> Harry Ford
> Nellie French
> Louis C. Gregory
> Louise M. Gregory
> Bertha Herklotz
> Marie Hopper
> Maria Ioas
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> Beatrice Irwin
> Marion Jack
> Florence Breed Khan
> Edward B. Kinney
> Fanny Knobloch
> George Latimer
> Ruhaniyyih Latimer
> Fanny Lesch
> Edwin W. Mattoon
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> William Sutherland Maxwell
> Florence Morton
> Ella Robarts
> Annie Romer
> Fred Schopflocher
> Anthony Y. Seto
> Philip G. Sprague
> Gertrude Struven
> Juliet Thompson
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> George Townshend
> Roy C. Wilhelm
> Albert Windust
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> — *Citadel of Faith (Used by permission of the curator)*