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Citadel of Faith
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Pages 45-46
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Prevailing Crisis
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Hope is welling up in my anxious, overburdened heart that the
North American Bahá'í Community may yet emerge triumphant over
the prevailing crisis, demonstrate its capacity to preserve its hard-won
prizes and redeem its pledges through a further display of its qualities of
unconquerable faith, unbreakable solidarity, dauntless valor and heroic
self-sacrifice, and vindicate its right to primacy in the world community
of the followers of Bahá'u'lláh. High water mark is still unattained
notwithstanding the mounting tide of enthusiastic response displayed
by an aroused community. Dangerous passage now forded in this
eleventh-hour campaign. I am fervently praying that further intensification
of effort, sustained, coordinated, consecrated and unanimously
exerted, will sweep its members on crest of the wave to total
victory. I feel assured that cumulative efforts of participants in emergency
campaign launched by entire community will increasingly attract
the promised inflowing grace of the holy Author of its destinies,
will demonstrate afresh its worthiness of the paternal care of its divine
Founder, will win added commendation from its sister communities of
the Eastern Hemisphere, deepen the admiration and inspire the emulation
of its daughter communities in Latin America and the European
continent, and strengthen the attachment and reinforce the brotherly
affection of its Guardian.
[February 13, 1948]
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