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Citadel of Faith
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Pages 143-144
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AID ACCORDED TO THEIR OPPRESSED BRETHREN IN PERSIA
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The reaction, so swift and so energetic, of the members of this same
community, now deservedly recognized as the impregnable citadel of
the Faith of God, and the cradle of the rising institutions of its World
Order, to the sudden onslaught made upon the institutions, the lives
and the livelihood of their oppressed brethren, members of the numerically
leading and the most venerable national Bahá'í community, by the
traditional adversaries of a long-persecuted Faith, has been such as to
deepen, to a marked extent, the feelings of genuine admiration and esteem,
so strongly felt throughout the Bahá'í world, for the enduring and
magnificent services rendered in the course of more than six decades
by the American believers to the Faith of Bahá'u'lláh and its embryonic
World Order. The spontaneity with which the rank and file of this
community as well as the body of its elected representatives, have
contributed to the "Save the Persecuted Fund" established for the
succor of the victims of these savage and periodically recurring barbarities;
the measure of publicity accorded them in the American press, as
well as over the radio; the timely and efficacious intervention of men of
prominence, in various walks of life, on behalf of the oppressed and the
down-trodden; the repeated and direct appeals addressed by them to the
highest authorities in Persia, as well as to their representative in the
United States; the immense number of written and cabled appeals,
made by the local as well as the national elected representatives of the
community, to the chief magistrate of Persia, his ministers and parliament;
the numerous messages addressed by the same representatives to
the chief executive of the United States, urging his personal intervention,
the pleading of the cause of an harassed, sorely-tried community
in the course of repeated representations made to the State Department
in Washington; the part played in the presentation of the Bahá'í case to
the United Nations officials in both Geneva and New York; the
allocation of a sizeable sum for the purpose of securing the assistance of
an expert publicity agent, in order to reinforce the publicity already
being received in the public press--these, as well as other measures
which, by their very nature, must of necessity remain confidential--
proclaim, in no uncertain terms, the dynamic and decisive nature
of the aid accorded, in a hour of trial and emergency, by the champions
of the Faith of Bahá'u'lláh, raised up in the great republic
of the West, at such a crucial hour in the evolution of His Plan,
for both His Faith and the world at large, to the vast body of the
descendants of the dawn-breakers of the Apostolic Age of that same
Faith in the land of its birth.
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