Citadel of Faith by Shoghi Effendi

About this eBook

Author

Shoghi, Effendi, 1897-1957

Title

Citadel of Faith

Language

English

LoC Class

BP: Philosophy, Psychology, Religion: Islam, Bahaism, Theosophy, Other and new beliefs

Subject

Bahai Faith -- North America

Category

Text

eBook-No.

19254

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/19254

Release Date

September 16, 2006

Copyright

Copyrighted. Read the copyright notice inside this book for details.

Contents

1. 1.Baha'i Terms of Use — Contents — Believers’ Generous Response to Temple Fund — Call to Fuller Participation — Consolidation in Europe — Participation in Second Seven Year Plan [MESSAGE TO 1947 CONVENTION] — NSA Must Control Credentials of Foreigners — The Challenging Requirements of the Present Hour — CROWNING FEATURE OF ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER: THE UNIVERSAL HOUSE OF JUSTICE — FOURFOLD OBJECTIVE TO PRESENT REQUIREMENTS — GOALS IN THE UNITED STATES AND ALASKA — CANADA TO FORM SEPARATE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY — TASKS IN LATIN AMERICA — TWO REGIONAL NATIONAL ASSEMBLIES A VITAL OBJECTIVE — IMPORTANCE OF THE AMERICAN INDIANS — BAHÁ’U’LLÁH’S SUMMONS TO THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE — SPIRITUAL CRUSADE TO BE LAUNCHED IN EUROPE — EVOLVING STRONGHOLDS IN TEN INITIAL COUNTRIES — INITIATING NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS AND ADAPTING TEACHING METHODS — EUROPE FEELS STIRRINGS OF SPIRITUAL REVOLUTION — DIVINE PLAN CHALLENGES NORTH AMERICAN BELIEVERS — DETACHMENT FROM THE PHYSICAL WORLD — CONTRIBUTION OF THE WEST TO WORLD ORDER — THE WORKINGS OF TWO SIMULTANEOUS PROCESSES — A PARALLEL BETWEEN THE AMERICAN BAHÁ’Í COMMUNITY AND THE AMERICAN REPUBLIC — THE UNITED STATES IS SIGNALLY BLEST — TRIBULATIONS ARE INEVITABLE — AMERICA TO EVOLVE UNTIL LAST TASK IS DISCHARGED — European Pioneers and Temple Contract — Evidences of Notable Expansion — Effective Prosecution of Sacred Tasks
2. 2.HEART-WARMING PROGRESS IN EUROPEAN ENTERPRISE
3. 3.TRIPLE CAMPAIGN OF CRITICAL IMPORTANCE — Recognition of Preeminent Services — Critical Stage of Task on Home Front — No Sacrifice Too Great — Prevailing Crisis — Emergency Teaching Campaign — Marvelous Acceleration [FIRST MESSAGE TO 1948 CONVENTION] — Brilliant Achievements [SECOND MESSAGE TO 1948 CONVENTION] — 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
4. 4.STAUNCHNESS OF AMERICAN BELIEVERS
5. 5.PRESS FORWARD ON TEMPLE CONTRACTS
6. 6.CEASELESS EFFORT ESSENTIAL — 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 [MESSAGE TO 1949 CONVENTION] — 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 — AN HOUR LADEN WITH FATE — Ruhi and Family Show Open Defiance — Non-Bahá’í Gifts — Teaching in Africa — Comforted by Messages of Devotion — Relieved by Intensified Activity — Badí’u’lláh 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
7. 7.NO SACRIFICE TOO GREAT
8. 8.THE CENTER OF NINE CONCENTRIC CIRCLES
9. 9.THE CHOSEN TRUSTEES OF A DIVINE PLAN — First American Pioneer to Africa — Message to 1951 State Conventions — The Last and Irretrievable Chance — A PERIOD OF HISTORIC SIGNIFICANCE — OBJECTIVES OF SECOND SEVEN YEAR PLAN LARGELY ATTAINED — SCOPE OF THIRD SEVEN YEAR PLAN WIDENED — 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 — RECENT SERVICES DESERVING MENTION — ADDED RESPONSIBILITIES IN PROPAGATING THE DIVINE PLAN — A LASTING INFLUENCE ON AMERICAN COMMUNITY AND NATION — MOST VITAL OBJECTIVE IN THE CRUSADE’S OPENING YEAR — AN APPEAL TO ALL ENGAGED IN THE CRUSADE — Safeguarding American Primacy — Temple Site Purchased in Panama — Assemblies Must Be Maintained — American Bahá’ís in the Time of World Peril — CHIEF EXECUTOR OF DIVINE PLAN — AMERICA PASSING THROUGH CRISIS — AMERICAN BAHÁ’ÍS STAND AT CROSSROADS — WORLD CRUSADE TASKS — CHALLENGE TO EACH INDIVIDUAL BAHÁ’Í — APPEAL FOR DEDICATION — Nine-Pointed Star for Headstone — Send Appeals to President Eisenhower — A Mysterious Dispensation of Providence
10. 10.PERSECUTION OF THE BAHÁ’ÍS OF ÍRÁN
11. 11.A PREMEDITATED CAMPAIGN OF PERSECUTION
12. 12.APPEALS TO THE AUTHORITIES OF ÍRÁN AND TO THE UNITED NATIONS
13. 13.A WHOLLY DEDICATED, INFLEXIBLE RESOLVE
14. 14.“SAVE THE PERSECUTED FUND”
15. 15.THE FIRST HOUSE OF WORSHIP IN AFRICA
16. 16.A BLESSING IN DISGUISE
17. 17.UNPRECEDENTED PUBLICITY
18. 18.WORLD RECOGNITION OF THE FAITH — Revitalize Entire Community — Greater Consecration to Pressing Tasks — Praying for Great Victories on Home Front — Inestimable Prizes Within Our Reach — AID ACCORDED TO THEIR OPPRESSED BRETHREN IN PERSIA — A NOBLE RECORD OF SERVICE — FRUITFUL EFFORTS OF HANDS OF THE CAUSE — STUPENDOUS WORK ACHIEVED BY MEMBERS OF THE INTERNATIONAL BAHÁ’Í COUNCIL — REVITALIZATION OF THE HOME FRONT — THE INDIVIDUAL BAHÁ’Í MUST ARISE — “A PRAYER WHICH I NEVER CEASE TO UTTER” — Intensification of Efforts — Dual, Inescapable, Paramount Responsibilities — Heights Never Before Attained — ENDURING ACHIEVEMENTS — THE HOME FRONT—BASE FOR EXPANSION OF FUTURE OPERATIONS — MIGHTY AND HISTORIC ENTERPRISES — A GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY, A GLORIOUS CHALLENGE — HIS WATCHFUL POWER AND UNFAILING GRACE — IN MEMORIAM
19. 19.Frank Ashton
20. 20.Ella Bailey
21. 21.Dorothy Baker
22. 22.Mary Barton
23. 23.Victoria Bedikian
24. 24.Ella Cooper
25. 25.Julia Culver
26. 26.Dagmar Dole
27. 27.Homer Dyer
28. 28.L. W. Eggleston
29. 29.Harry Ford
30. 30.Nellie French
31. 31.Louis C. Gregory
32. 32.Louise M. Gregory
33. 33.Bertha Herklotz
34. 34.Marie Hopper
35. 35.Maria Ioas
36. 36.Beatrice Irwin
37. 37.Marion Jack
38. 38.Florence Breed Khan
39. 39.Edward B. Kinney
40. 40.Fanny Knobloch
41. 41.George Latimer
42. 42.Ruhaniyyih Latimer
43. 43.Fanny Lesch
44. 44.Edwin W. Mattoon
45. 45.William Sutherland Maxwell
46. 46.Florence Morton
47. 47.Ella Robarts
48. 48.Annie Romer
49. 49.Fred Schopflocher
50. 50.Anthony Y. Seto
51. 51.Philip G. Sprague
52. 52.Gertrude Struven
53. 53.Juliet Thompson
54. 54.George Townshend
55. 55.Roy C. Wilhelm
56. 56.Albert Windust — Footnotes

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