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Citadel of Faith
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Pages 156-157
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A GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY, A GLORIOUS CHALLENGE
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The forthcoming convocation of no less than five intercontinental
conferences, marking the passing of half of the time allotted for the
prosecution of a World Crusade, and to be held, in five continents of
the globe, for the purpose of paying homage to the Author of the Bahá'í
Revelation for His protection, guidance and blessings, of focusing
attention on the achievements of the immediate past and the pressing
requirements of the immediate future, will, it is my ardent hope and
prayer, provide a fresh stimulus for the adequate discharge of these two
afore-mentioned responsibilities, which constitute the distinguishing
features of the fourth phase of a rapidly unfolding Plan.
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At four of these five conferences, in the proceedings of which four,
the members of the American Bahá'í Community--the principal executors
of `Abdu'l-Bahá's Divine Plan and the keepers and defenders of
the stronghold of the Bahá'í Administrative Order--will participate,
through their official representatives, the voice of the champion-builders
of Bahá'u'lláh's embryonic World Order, who can well claim to
have had a decisive share in the great strides made by this Crusade,
should be raised in a spirit and manner that will galvanize these
conferences into action, and produce such results as will reverberate
round the world.
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A golden opportunity, a glorious challenge, an inescapable duty, a
staggering responsibility, confront them, at this fresh turning point in
the fortunes of a Crusade, for which they have so unremittingly
labored, whose Cause they have so notably advanced, in the further
unfoldment of which they must continue to play a leading part, and in
whose closing stages, they will, I feel confident, rise to heights never
before attained in the course of six decades of American Bahá'í history.
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Once again--and this time more fervently than ever before--I direct
my plea to every single member of this strenuously laboring, clear-visioned,
stout-hearted, spiritually endowed community, every man
and woman, on whose individual efforts, resolution, self-sacrifice and
perseverance the immediate destinies of the Faith of God, now traversing
so crucial a stage in its rise and establishment, primarily depends,
not to allow, through apathy, timidity or complacency, this one remaining
opportunity to be irretrievably lost. I would rather entreat each and
every one of them to immortalize this approaching, fateful hour in the
evolution of a World Spiritual Crusade, by a fresh consecration to their
God-given mission, coupled with an instantaneous plan of action, at
once so dynamic and decisive, as to wipe out, on the one hand, with
one stroke, the deficiencies which have, to no small extent, bogged
down the operations of the Crusade on the home front, and tremendously
accelerate, on the other, the progress of the triple task, launched,
in three continents, and constituting one of its preeminent objectives.
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