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Citadel of Faith
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Pages 35-36
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THE UNITED STATES IS SIGNALLY BLEST
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This nation so signally blest, occupying so eminent and responsible
a position in a continent so wonderfully endowed, was the first among
the nations of the West to be warmed and illuminated by the rays of the
Revelation of Bahá'u'lláh, soon after the proclamation of His Covenant
on the morrow of His ascension. This nation, moreover, may well claim
to have, as a result of its effective participation in both the first and
second world wars, redressed the balance, saved mankind the horrors of
devastation and bloodshed involved in the prolongation of hostilities,
and decisively contributed, in the course of the latter conflict, to the
overthrow of the exponents of ideologies fundamentally at variance
with the universal tenets of our Faith.
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To her President, the immortal Woodrow Wilson, must be ascribed
the unique honor, among the statesmen of any nation, whether of the
East or of the West, of having voiced sentiments so akin to the
principles animating the Cause of Bahá'u'lláh, and of having more
than any other world leader, contributed to the creation of the League
of Nations--achievements which the pen of the Center of God's
Covenant acclaimed as signalizing the dawn of the Most Great Peace,
whose sun, according to that same pen, must needs arise as the direct
consequence of the enforcement of the laws of the Dispensation of
Bahá'u'lláh.
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To the matchless position achieved by so preeminent a president of
the American Union, in a former period, at so critical a juncture in
international affairs, must now be added the splendid initiative taken,
in recent years by the American government, culminating in the birth
of the successor of that League in San Francisco, and the establishment
of its permanent seat in the city of New York. Nor can the preponderating
influence exerted by this nation in the councils of the world, the
prodigious economic and political power that it wields, the prestige it
enjoys, the wealth of which it disposes, the idealism that animates its
people, her magnificent contribution, as a result of her unparalleled
productive power, for the relief of human suffering and the rehabilitation
of peoples and nations, be overlooked in a survey of the position
which she holds, and which distinguishes her from her sister nations in
both the new and old worlds.
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