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Citadel of Faith
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Pages 147-148
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REVITALIZATION OF THE HOME FRONT
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So splendid a record of service, rendered within the brief span of a
little over three years, extending over so vast an area of the globe, so
highly diversified, so pregnant with promise, in the face of such
formidable obstacles, and by so limited a number of participants, has,
much to my deepest regret, been marred by a progressive devitalization
of the home front, constituting so momentous an aspect of the Ten-Year
Plan, and upon which its continued and effective prosecution by
the American Bahá'í Community, in the course of the present and third
phase of the World Spiritual Crusade, so largely depends.
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Constituting as it does the base of the multiple operations now
being conducted to ensure the success of the North American, the
Latin American, the African, the European and Asiatic campaigns of a
global crusade, no sacrifice can be deemed too great for its revitalization
and the broadening and consolidation of its foundations. The manpower
of the community, so essential to the further deployment of its
forces must, rapidly and at all costs, increase. The material resources,
now at its disposal, which are so bountifully poured forth and so
generously distributed to the four corners of the globe, must be
correspondingly augmented to meet the pressing and ever-swelling
demands of a constantly and irresistibly advancing Crusade. A far
greater proportion of the avowed supporters of the Faith must arise, ere
the Crusade suffers any setback, for the fourfold purpose of winning
over an infinitely greater number of recruits to the army of Bahá'u'lláh
fighting on the home front, of swelling to an unprecedented degree the
isolated centers now scattered within its confines, of converting an
increasing number of them into firmly founded groups, and of accelerating
the formation of local assemblies, while safeguarding those already
in existence.
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