Messages to America: Selected Letters and Cablegrams Addressed to the Bahá'í's of North America 1932–1946Shoghi, Effendi
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Messages to America: Selected Letters and Cablegrams Addressed to the Bahá'í's of North America 1932–1946
Shoghi, Effendi
Bahai Faith -- North America; Shoghi, Effendi, 1897-1957 -- Correspondence
What still greater reward could await those who, inspired by the success
achieved by the prosecutors of the second Seven Year Plan, will have
arisen to carry forward to a triumphant conclusion the third phase of the
Mission entrusted to them by ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, than that their prodigious
labors, having embraced territories far beyond the confines of the
continents of Europe and of America, should climax in, and be worthily
commemorated through, the world-wide celebrations of the “Most Great
Festival,” the “King of Festivals,” the “Festival of God” Himself—the
Festival associated with the accession of Him Who is the Lord of the
Kingdom to the throne of everlasting glory, and with the formal assumption
by Him of His prophetic office? What greater reward than that the
consummation of the third Seven Year Plan, marking the close of the first,
and signalizing the opening of the second, epoch in the evolution of the
Divine Plan, should synchronize with that greatest of all Jubilees,
related to the year 1335, mentioned by Daniel in the last Chapter of His
Book, and associated by ‘Abdu’l-Bahá with the world triumph of His
Father’s Faith? What greater glory than that those who have brought this
initial epoch in the resistless march of a world-embracing Plan to a
triumphant termination should be made to feel that they, and those gone
before them, have, through their collective, their sustained, and heroic
endeavors, organized through three successive stages, and covering a span
of almost a quarter of a century, been vouchsafed by the Almighty the
privilege of contributing, more than any other community consciously
laboring in the service of the Faith of Bahá’u’lláh, to this blissful
consummation, and to have played a preponderating role in the world
triumph of its institutions?
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