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MESSAGES TO AMERICAby SHOGHI EFFENDIGUARDIAN OF THE BAHÁ'Í FAITH
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Pages 63-64
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BAHÁ'Í COMMUNITIES OF EAST AND WEST
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Successive reports, proclaiming the American believers' brilliant feat,
the completion of the exterior ornamentation of the Temple, their historic
exploits in the spiritual conquest of every Republic of Latin America, as
well as their impending victory to be won through the establishment of the
structural basis of the Bahá'í administrative order in the Virgin States and
Provinces of North America, are thrilling the Eastern communities of the
Bahá'í world with delight, with admiration and with wonder.
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Ninety-five Persian families, emulating the example of the American
trail-blazers of the Faith of Bahá'u'lláh, have recently forsaken their homes
and followed in the footsteps of pioneers already departed from Persia
yesterday evening to hoist its banner in the adjoining territories of
Afghanistan, Baluchistan, Sulamaniyyih, Hijáz and Bahrein Island.
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Local Assemblies have been founded in Kashmir Valley in the extreme
north and in Madras Presidency in the extreme south, as well as in Haydarabad,
the leading stronghold of Muslim orthodoxy in India.
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The National Bahá'í Administrative Headquarters of the Egyptian believers
are nearing completion. A similar institution is in process of establishment
in India's capital city, Delhi. A Guest House, adjunct to the newly
built Administrative Headquarters of the Bahá'ís of `Iráq, has been
constructed.
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Bahá'í communities of East and West are arising in the fourth year of
the devastating conflict in the full strength of their undisruptable
solidarity, resolved to write, through immortal deeds, further glorious pages
in the last Chapter of the first Bahá'í Century.
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I appeal to the standard-bearers of Bahá'u'lláh's ever-advancing army
to safeguard the spiritual prizes already won and maintain every outpost of
the Faith established in the southern hemisphere. I entreat them to exert
still more magnificent efforts to discharge befittingly the one remaining
responsibility in the North American continent.
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I am praying for the achievement of a resounding total victory in all
the Americas, thereby sealing the triumph of the first stage in the Divine
Plan for whose execution the entire machinery of the Administrative Order
was for no less than sixteen years patiently and laboriously erected.
May 27, 1943
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