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A new version of the Bahá’í Reference Library is now available. This ‘old version’ of the Bahá’í Reference Library will be replaced at a later date.
The new version of the Bahá’i Reference Library can be accessed here »
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SUPREMELY CHALLENGING HOUR |
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The long-predicted world-encircling conflagration, essential pre-requisite
to world unification, is inexorably moving to its appointed climax. Its fires,
first lit in the Far East, subsequently ravaging Europe and enveloping
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Africa, now threaten devastation both in Near East and Far West, respectively
enshrining the World Center and the chief remaining Citadel of the
Faith of Bahá’u’lláh. The Divinely-appointed Plan must and will likewise
pursue undeflected its predestined course. Time is pressing. The settlement
of the two remaining Latin Republics, the sounder consolidation through
formation of firmly-knit groups in newly-opened territories, the provision
of adequate means for the ornamentation of last six faces of first story of
Temple, stand out as vital requirements of approaching supremely challenging
hour. My eyes and heart are anxiously, longingly turned to the New
World to witness the evidences of a new, still more heroic phase of enterprise
confidently entrusted to vigilant care of the American believers by the
ever-watchful, powerfully-sustaining Master. I refuse to believe that a
community so richly endowed, so greatly envied, so repeatedly honored, will
suffer the slightest relaxation of its resolution to jeopardize the spiritual
prizes painstakingly and deservedly won throughout the States and Provinces
of the Republics of the Western Hemisphere.
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