ssing
Crusade, is one of the dearest wishes which a loving and longing heart
holds for them at this great turning point in the fortunes of the Faith of
Baha'u'llah in the American continent.

[July 28, 1954]

NINE-POINTED STAR FOR HEADSTONE

Approve star for graves.

[October 22, 1954] (NOTE: The Guardian considered the Greatest Name too
sacred for use on tombstones.)

SEND APPEALS TO PRESIDENT EISENHOWER

Owing to aggravation of the situation, the hacking to pieces of the bodies
of seven believers in the vicinity of Yazd, and the likelihood of worse
massacre in the approaching months, advise all groups and assemblies in
the United States to address telegraphically President Eisenhower,
appealing for his intervention for protection from further massacres of
our offenseless, law-abiding co-religionists in Iran and the safeguard of
their human rights. Include brief reference to the worst atrocities.
National Assembly should address him similar message both in writing and
telegraphically. Include list of atrocities in accompanying memorandum...

[August 15, 1955]

A MYSTERIOUS DISPENSATION OF PROVIDENCE

PERSECUTION OF THE BAHA'IS OF IRAN

A crisis in the fortunes of the Faith of Baha'u'llah, of exceptional
severity, extensive in its ramifications, unpredictable in its immediate
consequences, directly involving the overwhelming majority of His
followers in the land of His birth, and confronting with a major challenge
Baha'i communities in both hemispheres, has plunged the Baha'i world,
whilst engaged in the prosecution of a world-wide spiritual crusade, into
intense sorrow and profound anxiety.

More grievous than any of the intermittent crises which have more or less
acutely afflicted the Faith since the inception, over thirty years ago, of
the Formative Age of the Baha'i Dispensation, such as a seizure of the
keys of the foremost Shrine of the Baha'i world by the covenant-breakers
residing in the Holy Land; the occupation of the House of Baha'u'llah by
His traditional enemies in Ba_gh_dad; the expropriation of the first
Ma_sh_riqu'l-A_dh_kar of the Baha'i world in Turkistan and the virtual
extinction of the I_sh_qabad Baha'i Community; the disabilities suffered
by the Egyptian Baha'i Community as a result of the verdict of the
Egyptian ecclesiastical court and the historic pronouncements of the
highest dignitaries of Sunni Islam in Egypt; the defection of the members
of '