ELIZABETH GREENLEAF UNCONQUERABLE POWER THE PROCESS OF INTEGRATION AND DISINTEGRATION THE CRUCIBLE OF WORLD CONFLAGRATION A TRULY WORLD-EMBRACING CRISIS IMPELLED TO DEPUTIZE FIVE MEMBERS THE SEVEN YEAR PLAN CONSECRATED TO TEACHING TASKS A BEFITTING CLIMAX ACCLAIM WITH GRATEFUL HEART THE IMMORTAL LUA THE UNFINISHED TASKS COMPLETION OF TEMPLE EXTERIOR HIS SERVICES UNFORGETTABLE ALL-AMERICA CENTENNIAL CONVENTION FOUNDATION STONE LAID BY THE CENTER OF THE COVENANT BAHÁ’Í COMMUNITIES OF EAST AND WEST THE CROWNING CRUSADE PREPARATIONS FOR THE CENTENARY THE BELOVED FAITH IS SURGING FORWARD A STILL MORE COMPELLING DISPLAY THE AUSPICIOUS YEAR ADDITION TO ENDOWMENTS PARTICIPATION OF LATIN AMERICAN BELIEVERS BEFITTINGLY CONSUMMATE THE ENTERPRISES TURNING POINT IN BAHÁ’Í HISTORY INTERNATIONAL ACHIEVEMENT MESSAGE TO CENTENARY CONVENTION CONSOLIDATION OF NOBLY-WON VICTORIES A SPIRITUAL ASSEMBLY IN EVERY REMAINING REPUBLIC THE SEAL OF SPIRITUAL TRIUMPH FAITHFUL PIONEER PASSAGES IN “GOD PASSES BY” THE SUCCEEDING STAGE IN THE EVOLUTION OF THEIR WORLD MISSION THE ADMISSION OF PERSIANS STAUNCH PIONEER THE ONE MESSAGE THAT CAN EXTRICATE HUMANITY MY HEAVY-LADENED HEART NATIONWIDE, INTERCONTINENTAL PLANS A SINGLE, ORGANICALLY-UNITED WORLD COMMONWEALTH A NEW PHASE OF HUMAN EVOLUTION HEARTS UPLIFTED IN THANKSGIVING THE WORK OF REHABILITATION THE GERMAN BAHÁ’Í COMMUNITY EXEMPLARY PIONEER LYDIA ZAMENHOF HISTORIC DECISIONS MOMENTOUS RESPONSIBILITIES INAUGURATION OF SECOND SEVEN YEAR PLAN SPIRITUAL CONQUEST OF THE OLD WORLD THIRTY NEW ASSEMBLIES A GOD-GIVEN MANDATE THE UTMOST VIGOR, VIGILANCE AND CONSECRATION DISTINGUISHED SERVANT THIS NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL CRUSADE THE FORCES MYSTERIOUSLY RELEASED THE PIVOT ON WHICH HINGES SUCCESS FIFTH YEAR OF PLAN MESSAGE TO 1941 CONVENTION [FRONTISPIECE] MESSAGES TO AMERICA by SHOGHI EFFENDI GUARDIAN OF THE BAHÁ’Í FAITH Selected Letters and Cablegrams Addressed to the Bahá’í’s of North America 1932–1946 “As the end of the First Century of the Bahá’í Era approaches, as the shadows descending upon and enveloping mankind steadily and remorselessly deepen, this community, which can almost be regarded as the solitary champion of the Faith in the Western World, is increasingly evincing and demonstrating its capacity, its worth, and ability as the torchbearer of the New, the World Civilization which is destined to supplant in the fulness of time the present one.”—Shoghi Effendi, December 3, 1940. BAHÁ’Í PUBLISHING COMMITTEE WILMETTE, ILLINOIS, U.S.A. 1947 NABÍL’S NARRATIVE