WORLD RECOGNITION OF THE FAITH Revitalize Entire Community Greater Consecration to Pressing Tasks Praying for Great Victories on Home Front Inestimable Prizes Within Our Reach AID ACCORDED TO THEIR OPPRESSED BRETHREN IN PERSIA A NOBLE RECORD OF SERVICE FRUITFUL EFFORTS OF HANDS OF THE CAUSE STUPENDOUS WORK ACHIEVED BY MEMBERS OF THE INTERNATIONAL BAHÁ’Í COUNCIL REVITALIZATION OF THE HOME FRONT THE INDIVIDUAL BAHÁ’Í MUST ARISE “A PRAYER WHICH I NEVER CEASE TO UTTER” Intensification of Efforts Dual, Inescapable, Paramount Responsibilities Heights Never Before Attained ENDURING ACHIEVEMENTS THE HOME FRONT—BASE FOR EXPANSION OF FUTURE OPERATIONS MIGHTY AND HISTORIC ENTERPRISES A GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY, A GLORIOUS CHALLENGE HIS WATCHFUL POWER AND UNFAILING GRACE IN MEMORIAM Frank Ashton Ella Bailey Dorothy Baker Mary Barton Victoria Bedikian Ella Cooper Julia Culver Dagmar Dole Homer Dyer L. W. Eggleston Harry Ford Nellie French Louis C. Gregory Louise M. Gregory Bertha Herklotz Marie Hopper Maria Ioas Beatrice Irwin Marion Jack Florence Breed Khan Edward B. Kinney Fanny Knobloch George Latimer Ruhaniyyih Latimer Fanny Lesch Edwin W. Mattoon William Sutherland Maxwell Florence Morton Ella Robarts Annie Romer Fred Schopflocher Anthony Y. Seto Philip G. Sprague Gertrude Struven Juliet Thompson George Townshend Roy C. Wilhelm Albert Windust BELIEVERS’ GENEROUS RESPONSE TO TEMPLE FUND Thrilled by generous response of believers to Temple Fund. Deeply touched. Hail latest striking evidence of the magnificent spirit, unshakable solidarity and unflinching resolve of American Bahá’í Community. Deepest loving gratitude. [January 20, 1947] CALL TO FULLER PARTICIPATION Acclaim with grateful heart evidences of steadily accelerating movement of pioneers, multiplication of conferences, consolidation of activities of national committees, progress in preliminaries of internal ornamentation of Temple, and formulation of teaching policy in southern states. Overwhelmed by tributes paid my own humble efforts by stalwart company whose championship of Faith of Bahá’u’lláh during last quarter century provided greatest support and solace, enabling me to sustain the weight of cares and responsibilities of Guardianship.