Call to the Nations -- References

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1. Call to the Nations, Extracts from the Writings of Shoghi Effendi; (Universal House of Justice, 1977)
2. From the third Vahid of the Persian Bayan. Quoted by Shoghi Effendi, God Passes By (Wilmette: Bahá'í Publishing Trust, 1987), p.25
3. Shoghi Effendi, The World Order of Bahá'u'lláh: Selected Letters (Wilmette: Bahá'í Publishing Trust, Second Revised Edition, 1974), p. 34
4. The Introduction consists of extracts from a statement prepared by Shoghi Effendi for the United Nations Special Committee on Palestine, July 1947.
5. Written in March 1941.
6. Shoghi Effendi, The Promised Day Is Come (Wilmette: Bahá'í Publishing Trust, 1980), pp. 3-7.
7. ibid. pp. 48-9.
8. ibid. p. 74.
9. The World Order of Bahá'u'lláh, pp.183-4.
10. ibid. pp. 186-8.
11. The Promised Day is Come, pp. 107-8.
12. ibid. pp. 110-11.
13. The World Order of Bahá'u'lláh, p. 25.
14. ibid. p. 103.
15. Written in 1944.
16. Shoghi Effendi, God Passes By (Wilmette: Bahá'í Publishing Trust, Seventh Printing, 1974), pp. xi-xii.
17. The Promised Day is Come, p. 116.
18. Written in 1931.
19. Written in 1931 and refers to the first World War.
20. Now over a century; the Tablet to Queen Victoria was written about 1870.
21. The World Order of Bahá'u'lláh, pp. 33-48.
22. ibid. p. 19.
23. ibid. p. 24.
24. ibid. p. 98.
25. ibid. pp. 152-3.
26. ibid. pp. 153-55.
27. ibid. pp. 161-2.
28. Now more than a hundred.
29. The World Order of Bahá'u'lláh, pp. 162-4.
30. ibid. pp. 166-7.
31. Written in 1936, since then the number has increased to 235, comprising 190 independent states and 45 territories.
32. The World Order of Bahá'u'lláh, p. 168.
33. ibid. pp. 168-9.
34. ibid. p. 169.
35. ibid. pp. 202-4.
36. Messages to the Bahá'í World, 1950-1957 (Wilmette: Bahá'í Publishing Trust, 1971), pp. 102-3.
37. The Promised Day is Come, pp. 116-19.
38. ibid. pp. 121-4.