[February 26, 1949]
Suspend World Order Magazine
Advise you to suspend magazine for next two years. Appeal on my behalf to subscribers in East and West to devote their subscription fee to Temple Fund. Owing to present emergency such action would be highly meritorious.
[February 28, 1949]
A Testing Period Recalling Ordeals of the Dawn-Breakers
The first half of the opening decade of the second Bahá’í century is terminating. The great-minded, stout-hearted, high-spirited American Bahá’í Community, laden with the trophies accumulated in the course of its fifty years’ magnificent stewardship of the Faith of Bahá’u’lláh is irresistibly embarking upon a two and a half year period unsurpassed in its fateful consequences by any previous stage traversed in the community’s eventful history.