Messages to America / Selected Letters and Cablegrams Addressed to the Bahá'í's of North America 1932–1946
Messages to America
by Shoghi Effendi
Edition 1, (September 2006)
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Contents
[Frontispiece]
NABÍL’S NARRATIVE
IMMORTAL SPIRIT
UNITED WILL, CONCERTED ACTION
NON-PARTICIPATION IN POLITICAL AFFAIRS
PERSONALITIES SUBORDINATED
MOMENTOUS CONVENTION
AN EMINENT RANK
POTENTIALITIES OF MAJESTIC EDIFICE
THE VOTING RIGHT
UNPRECEDENTED IMPETUS
SEPARATION FROM OUTWORN CREEDS
THE NATIONAL FUND
THE NEW HOUR HAS STRUCK
THIS IS TRULY PROVIDENTIAL
‘ABDU’L-BAHÁ’S HISTORIC APPEAL
FRESH CONQUESTS AND UNPRECEDENTED TRIUMPHS
INTENSIFY TEACHING WORK A THOUSANDFOLD
THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE UNDERTAKING
A COMPLETE REDEDICATION
INSTITUTION OF GUARDIANSHIP NOW FURTHER REINFORCED
DUAL GIFT
THE CALL HAS GONE FORTH ... THE PATH IS CLEAR
CONVENTION DELEGATES INCREASED
ALL SHOULD ARISE
ARCHBREAKER OF COVENANT
CERTAIN VITAL REQUIREMENTS OF SEVEN YEAR PLAN
A YEAR HAS ALMOST ELAPSED
DRAW NIGH UNTO BAHÁ’U’LLÁH
MARCHING TOWARD THEIR GOAL
UNBROKEN SOLIDARITY, UNQUENCHABLE ENTHUSIASM
LOYALTY TO WORLD ORDER OF BAHÁ’U’LLÁH
NINE HOLY SOULS
THE RAREST PRIVILEGE EVER CONFERRED BY PROVIDENCE UPON THE AMERICAN BAHÁ’Í COMMUNITY
GOD’S CREATIVE PLAN
APPROACH OF FINAL ERUPTION
GRATITUDE TO PIONEERS
MY PLEA, MY SUPREME ENTREATY
PENETRATION OF LATIN AMERICA
PROVE THEMSELVES ... WORTHY OF THAT PRICELESS HERITAGE
OFFICIAL INAUGURATION OF WORLD MISSION
FULFIL THE REQUIREMENTS
THE MOST FATEFUL HOUR
IMPERILLED HUMANITY
IN GALAXY OF BAHÁ’Í IMMORTALS
MANDATE CONFERRED BY ‘ABDU’L-BAHÁ
THE SPIRITUAL POTENCIES OF THAT CONSECRATED SPOT
THE SEAL OF COMPLETE TRIUMPH
DUAL, VITALLY URGENT OBLIGATION
BELOVED HANDMAID
THEIR GOD-GIVEN TASK
BAHÁ’U’LLÁH’S SPIRITUAL SOVEREIGNTY
SECTION OF ORNAMENTATION
CONTINUOUS CONSECRATION
EMERGENCE OF SPIRITUAL WORLD ORDER
SUPREMELY CHALLENGING HOUR
CHAOS AND REDEMPTION
TORCHBEARER OF WORLD CIVILIZATION
THIS VETERAN WARRIOR
THE ANGER OF GOD AND HIS CORRECTION
FATE-LADEN WORLD ORDEAL
ELIZABETH GREENLEAF
UNCONQUERABLE POWER
THE PROCESS OF INTEGRATION AND DISINTEGRATION
THE CRUCIBLE OF WORLD CONFLAGRATION
A TRULY WORLD-EMBRACING CRISIS
IMPELLED TO DEPUTIZE FIVE MEMBERS
THE SEVEN YEAR PLAN
CONSECRATED TO TEACHING TASKS
A BEFITTING CLIMAX
ACCLAIM WITH GRATEFUL HEART
THE IMMORTAL LUA
THE UNFINISHED TASKS
COMPLETION OF TEMPLE EXTERIOR
HIS SERVICES UNFORGETTABLE
ALL-AMERICA CENTENNIAL CONVENTION
FOUNDATION STONE LAID BY THE CENTER OF THE COVENANT
BAHÁ’Í COMMUNITIES OF EAST AND WEST
THE CROWNING CRUSADE
PREPARATIONS FOR THE CENTENARY
THE BELOVED FAITH IS SURGING FORWARD
A STILL MORE COMPELLING DISPLAY
THE AUSPICIOUS YEAR
ADDITION TO ENDOWMENTS
PARTICIPATION OF LATIN AMERICAN BELIEVERS
BEFITTINGLY CONSUMMATE THE ENTERPRISES
TURNING POINT IN BAHÁ’Í HISTORY
INTERNATIONAL ACHIEVEMENT
MESSAGE TO CENTENARY CONVENTION
CONSOLIDATION OF NOBLY-WON VICTORIES
A SPIRITUAL ASSEMBLY IN EVERY REMAINING REPUBLIC
THE SEAL OF SPIRITUAL TRIUMPH
FAITHFUL PIONEER
PASSAGES IN “GOD PASSES BY”
THE SUCCEEDING STAGE IN THE EVOLUTION OF THEIR WORLD MISSION
THE ADMISSION OF PERSIANS
STAUNCH PIONEER
THE ONE MESSAGE THAT CAN EXTRICATE HUMANITY
MY HEAVY-LADENED HEART
NATIONWIDE, INTERCONTINENTAL PLANS
A SINGLE, ORGANICALLY-UNITED WORLD COMMONWEALTH
A NEW PHASE OF HUMAN EVOLUTION
HEARTS UPLIFTED IN THANKSGIVING
THE WORK OF REHABILITATION
THE GERMAN BAHÁ’Í COMMUNITY
EXEMPLARY PIONEER
LYDIA ZAMENHOF
HISTORIC DECISIONS
MOMENTOUS RESPONSIBILITIES
INAUGURATION OF SECOND SEVEN YEAR PLAN
SPIRITUAL CONQUEST OF THE OLD WORLD
THIRTY NEW ASSEMBLIES
A GOD-GIVEN MANDATE
THE UTMOST VIGOR, VIGILANCE AND CONSECRATION
DISTINGUISHED SERVANT
THIS NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL CRUSADE
THE FORCES MYSTERIOUSLY RELEASED
THE PIVOT ON WHICH HINGES SUCCESS
FIFTH YEAR OF PLAN MESSAGE TO 1941 CONVENTION
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