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Citadel of Faith
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Pages 99-100
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The Last and Irretrievable Chance
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The brief interval separating the hard-pressed, valiantly struggling,
resistlessly expanding American Bahá'í Community from the anticipated
consummation of the second, fate-laden collective enterprise
launched so auspiciously by its national elected representatives is
speedily drawing to a close. The sixteen months that still lie ahead
constitute in view of the tasks that still remain to be achieved, and the
sacrifices still to be made, a period at once critical and challenging. This
memorable period commemorates, if we pause and call to mind the
stirring events and bloody episodes linking the Dispensation of the Báb
with the dawning Mission of the Founder of our Faith, the centenary
of what may be truly regarded as the darkest, the most tragic, the most
heroic, period in the annals of a hundred-year-old Revelation. This
period, moreover, affords the last and irretrievable chance to a ceaselessly
striving, repeatedly victorious community of setting the seal of
triumph upon a momentous undertaking, on whose fate hinges the
launching of yet another glorious Crusade, the consummation of which
will mark the successful conclusion of the initial epoch in the unfoldment
of `Abdu'l-Bahá's Divine Plan--an evolution that must continue
to blossom and fructify in the course of successive epochs of the
Formative Ages of the Faith, and yield its fairest fruit in the Golden
Age that is yet to come.
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