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Contents

Believers’ Generous Response to Temple Fund

Call to Fuller Participation

Consolidation in Europe

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

HEART-WARMING PROGRESS IN EUROPEAN ENTERPRISE

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

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

STAUNCHNESS OF AMERICAN BELIEVERS

PRESS FORWARD ON TEMPLE CONTRACTS

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

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

NO SACRIFICE TOO GREAT

THE CENTER OF NINE CONCENTRIC CIRCLES

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

PERSECUTION OF THE BAHÁ’ÍS OF ÍRÁN

A PREMEDITATED CAMPAIGN OF PERSECUTION

APPEALS TO THE AUTHORITIES OF ÍRÁN AND TO THE UNITED NATIONS

A WHOLLY DEDICATED, INFLEXIBLE RESOLVE

“SAVE THE PERSECUTED FUND”

THE FIRST HOUSE OF WORSHIP IN AFRICA

A BLESSING IN DISGUISE

UNPRECEDENTED PUBLICITY

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

Frank Ashton

Ella Bailey

Dorothy Baker

Mary Barton

Victoria Bedikian

Ella Cooper

Julia Culver

Dagmar Dole

Homer Dyer

L. W. Eggleston

Harry Ford

Nellie French

Louis C. Gregory

Louise M. Gregory

Bertha Herklotz

Marie Hopper

Maria Ioas

Beatrice Irwin

Marion Jack

Florence Breed Khan

Edward B. Kinney

Fanny Knobloch

George Latimer

Ruhaniyyih Latimer

Fanny Lesch

Edwin W. Mattoon

William Sutherland Maxwell

Florence Morton

Ella Robarts

Annie Romer

Fred Schopflocher

Anthony Y. Seto

Philip G. Sprague

Gertrude Struven

Juliet Thompson

George Townshend

Roy C. Wilhelm

Albert Windust

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