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                  |  | Citadel of Faith | Pages 45-46 |  |  | Prevailing Crisis
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	| 1 | Hope is welling up in my anxious, overburdened heart that the 
North American Bahá'í Community may yet emerge triumphant over 
the prevailing crisis, demonstrate its capacity to preserve its hard-won 
prizes and redeem its pledges through a further display of its qualities of 
unconquerable faith, unbreakable solidarity, dauntless valor and heroic 
self-sacrifice, and vindicate its right to primacy in the world community 
of the followers of Bahá'u'lláh.  High water mark is still unattained 
notwithstanding the mounting tide of enthusiastic response displayed 
by an aroused community.  Dangerous passage now forded in this 
eleventh-hour campaign.  I am fervently praying that further intensification 
of effort, sustained, coordinated, consecrated and unanimously 
exerted, will sweep its members on crest of the wave to total 
victory.  I feel assured that cumulative efforts of participants in emergency 
campaign launched by entire community will increasingly attract 
the promised inflowing grace of the holy Author of its destinies, 
will demonstrate afresh its worthiness of the paternal care of its divine 
Founder, will win added commendation from its sister communities of 
the Eastern Hemisphere, deepen the admiration and inspire the emulation 
of its daughter communities in Latin America and the European 
continent, and strengthen the attachment and reinforce the brotherly 
affection of its Guardian. [February 13, 1948] 
 
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