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Gathered within the walls of its national Shrine-- the most sacred Temple ever to be reared to the glory of Baha'u'llah; commemorating at once the centenary of the birth of the Babi Dispensation, of the inauguration of the Baha'i era, of the inception of the Baha'i Cycle and of the birth of Abdu'l- Baha, as well as the fiftieth anniversary of the establishment of the Faith in the Western Hemisphere; associated in its celebration with the representatives of American Republics, foregathered in the close vicinity of a city that may well pride itself on being the first Baha'i center established in the Western world, this community may indeed feel, on this solemn occasion, that it has, in its turn, through the triumphal conclusion of the first stage of the Plan traced for it by Abdu'l- Baha, shed a lasting glory upon its sister communities in East and West, and written, in golden letters, the concluding pages in the annals of the first Baha'i century.
(400:3)
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