# Messages to America

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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, Messages to America, Wilmette: Bahá'í Publishing Trust, 1947, bahai-library.com.
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> Messages to America
> 
> Shoghi Effendi
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> Wilmette: Bahá'í Publishing Trust, 1947
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> Contents
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> About Messages To America
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> NABIL'S NARRATIVE
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> IMMORTAL SPIRIT
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> UNITED WILL, CONCERTED ACTION
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> NON-PARTICIPATION IN POLITICAL AFFAIRS
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> PERSONALITIES SUBORDINATED
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> MOMENTOUS CONVENTION: Message to 1933 Convention
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> AN EMINENT RANK
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> POTENTIALITIES OF MAJESTIC EDIFICE: Message to 1934 Convention
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> THE VOTING RIGHT
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> UNPRECEDENTED IMPETUS: Message to 1935 Convention
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> SEPARATION FROM OUTWORN CREEDS
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> THE NATIONAL FUND
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> THE NEW HOUR HAS STRUCK
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> THIS IS TRULY PROVIDENTIAL
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> `Abdu'l-BAHA'S HISTORIC APPEAL: Message to 1936 Convention
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> FRESH CONQUESTS AND UNPRECEDENTED TRIUMPHS
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> INTENSIFY TEACHING WORK A THOUSANDFOLD
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> THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE UNDERTAKING
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> A COMPLETE REDEDICATION
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> INSTITUTION OF GUARDIANSHIP NOW FURTHER REINFORCED
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> DUAL GIFT: Message to 1937 Convention
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> THE CALL HAS GONE FORTH ... THE PATH IS CLEAR
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> CONVENTION DELEGATES INCREASED
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> ALL SHOULD ARISE
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> ARCHBREAKER OF COVENANT
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> CERTAIN VITAL REQUIREMENTS OF SEVEN YEAR PLAN
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> A YEAR HAS ALMOST ELAPSED
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> DRAW NIGH UNTO BAHA'U'LLAH: Message to 1938 Convention
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> MARCHING TOWARD THEIR GOAL
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> UNBROKEN SOLIDARITY, UNQUENCHABLE ENTHUSIASM
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> LOYALTY TO WORLD ORDER OF BAHA'U'LLAH
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> NINE HOLY SOULS
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> THE RAREST PRIVILEGE EVER CONFERRED BY PROVIDENCE UPON THE AMERICAN BAHA'I COMMUNITY
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> GOD'S CREATIVE PLAN
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> APPROACH OF FINAL ERUPTION
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> GRATITUDE TO PIONEERS
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> MY PLEA, MY SUPREME ENTREATY
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> PENETRATION OF LATIN AMERICA: Message to 1939 Convention
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> PROVE THEMSELVES ... WORTHY OF THAT PRICELESS HERITAGE
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> OFFICIAL INAUGURATION OF WORLD MISSION
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> FULFIL THE REQUIREMENTS
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> THE MOST FATEFUL HOUR
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> IMPERILLED HUMANITY
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> IN GALAXY OF BAHA'I IMMORTALS
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> MANDATE CONFERRED BY `Abdu'l-BAHA
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> THE SPIRITUAL POTENCIES OF THAT CONSECRATED SPOT
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> THE SEAL OF COMPLETE TRIUMPH
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> DUAL, VITALLY URGENT OBLIGATION
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> BELOVED HANDMAID
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> THEIR GOD-GIVEN TASK
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> BAHA'U'LLAH'S SPIRITUAL SOVEREIGNTY: Message to 1940 Convention
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> SECTION OF ORNAMENTATION
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> CONTINUOUS CONSECRATION
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> EMERGENCE OF SPIRITUAL WORLD ORDER
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> SUPREMELY CHALLENGING HOUR
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> CHAOS AND REDEMPTION
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> TORCHBEARER OF WORLD CIVILIZATION
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> THIS VETERAN WARRIOR
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> THE ANGER OF GOD AND HIS CORRECTION
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> FATE-LADEN WORLD ORDEAL
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> ELIZABETH GREENLEAF
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> UNCONQUERABLE POWER
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> THE PROCESS OF INTEGRATION AND DISINTEGRATION
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> THE CRUCIBLE OF WORLD CONFLAGRATION
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> A TRULY WORLD-EMBRACING CRISIS
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> IMPELLED TO DEPUTIZE FIVE MEMBERS: Message to 1942 Convention
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> THE SEVEN YEAR PLAN
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> CONSECRATED TO TEACHING TASKS
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> A BEFITTING CLIMAX
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> ACCLAIM WITH GRATEFUL HEART
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> THE IMMORTAL LUA
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> THE UNFINISHED TASKS
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> COMPLETION OF TEMPLE EXTERIOR
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> HIS SERVICES UNFORGETTABLE
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> ALL-AMERICA CENTENNIAL CONVENTION: Message to 1943 Convention
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> FOUNDATION STONE LAID BY THE CENTER OF THE COVENANT
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> BAHA'I COMMUNITIES OF EAST AND WEST
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> THE CROWNING CRUSADE
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> PREPARATIONS FOR THE CENTENARY
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> THE BELOVED FAITH IS SURGING FORWARD
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> A STILL MORE COMPELLING DISPLAY
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> THE AUSPICIOUS YEAR
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> ADDITION TO ENDOWMENTS
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> PARTICIPATION OF LATIN AMERICAN BELIEVERS
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> BEFITTINGLY CONSUMMATE THE ENTERPRISES
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> TURNING POINT IN BAHA'I HISTORY
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> INTERNATIONAL ACHIEVEMENT
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> MESSAGE TO CENTENARY CONVENTION
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> CONSOLIDATION OF NOBLY-WON VICTORIES
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> A SPIRITUAL ASSEMBLY IN EVERY REMAINING REPUBLIC
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> THE SEAL OF SPIRITUAL TRIUMPH
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> FAITHFUL PIONEER
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> THE SUCCEEDING STAGE IN THE EVOLUTION OF THEIR WORLD MISSION
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> THE ADMISSION OF PERSIANS
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> STAUNCH PIONEER
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> THE ONE MESSAGE THAT CAN EXTRICATE HUMANITY
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> MY HEAVY-LADENED HEART
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> NATIONWIDE, INTERCONTINENTAL PLANS
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> A SINGLE, ORGANICALLY-UNITED WORLD COMMONWEALTH
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> A NEW PHASE OF HUMAN EVOLUTION
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> HEARTS UPLIFTED IN THANKSGIVING
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> THE WORK OF REHABILITATION
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> THE GERMAN BAHA'I COMMUNITY
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> EXEMPLARY PIONEER
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> LYDIA ZAMENHOF
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> HISTORIC DECISIONS
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> MOMENTOUS RESPONSIBILITIES
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> INAUGURATION OF SECOND SEVEN YEAR PLAN: Message to 1946 Convention
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> SPIRITUAL CONQUEST OF THE OLD WORLD
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> THIRTY NEW ASSEMBLIES
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> A GOD-GIVEN MANDATE
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> THE UTMOST VIGOR, VIGILANCE AND CONSECRATION
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> DISTINGUISHED SERVANT
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> THIS NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL CRUSADE
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> THE FORCES MYSTERIOUSLY RELEASED
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> THE PIVOT ON WHICH HINGES SUCCESS
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> FIFTH YEAR OF PLAN MESSAGE TO 1941 CONVENTION
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