Souvenir on 50th Jalsa Salana USA — Page 17
1st A HI() Ahmadiyyat Opens a New Chapter in America First Annual Convention of the U. S. Ahmadiyya Missions The year of 1948 witnessed an important step forward in the history of the Ahmadiyya Movement in the United States. Foundations were l aid for consolidated efforts of various American Ahmadiyya missions to further the noble cause of Islam at the first annual Ahmadiyya Convention held at Dayton, Ohio, last September. Achievements at the Convention included a solid program of educational, social, propagational and financi al activities. A central secretariat was estab lished with the object of coordinating work of the different miss ions. Publication of literature received a particular atten- tion and in this connection wider circulation of the MOSLEM SUNRISE was enthusiastically pledged. Notes of deep fidelity to Ahmadiyyat and greater drive for the propagation of Islam rang all through the deliberation s. One could not help to infer that the s incer - ity and zeal s howing in the faces of the ardent Ahmadie s was auguring a blessed era of determined conquest of the wide world around to bring eternal peace and happine ss to all the people through l s lam. If American Ahmadies act up to the ambitions to which they pledged their efforts at their first Convention , Allah, according to His promise, is sure to come to their help even as He did when the handful of Faithful s mad e similar pledge more than thirteen centuries ago with practically no means available to achieve their purpo se: nevertheles s in less than half a century they s ucceeded in conquering major part of the the n known world of Is lam.