Messages to America / Selected Letters and Cablegrams Addressed to the Bahá'í's of North America 1932–1946

by Effendi Shoghi

MESSAGES TO AMERICA
by SHOGHI EFFENDI
GUARDIAN OF THE BAHÁ’Í FAITH

Selected Letters and Cablegrams Addressed to the Bahá’í’s of North America 1932–1946

“As the end of the First Century of the Bahá’í Era approaches, as the shadows descending upon and enveloping mankind steadily and remorselessly deepen, this community, which can almost be regarded as the solitary champion of the Faith in the Western World, is increasingly evincing and demonstrating its capacity, its worth, and ability as the torchbearer of the New, the World Civilization which is destined to supplant in the fulness of time the present one.”—Shoghi Effendi, December 3, 1940.

BAHÁ’Í PUBLISHING COMMITTEE
WILMETTE, ILLINOIS, U.S.A.
1947

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NABÍL’S NARRATIVE

Feel impelled appeal entire body American believers to henceforth regard Nabíl’s soul-stirring Narrative as essential adjunct to reconstructed Teaching program, as unchallengeable textbook in their Summer Schools, as source of inspiration in all literary and artistic pursuits, as an invaluable companion in times of leisure, as indispensable preliminary to future pilgrimage to Bahá’u’lláh’s native land, and as unfailing instrument to allay distress and resist attacks of critical, disillusioned humanity.

Cablegram June 21, 1932.

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